Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error
chunes@lemmy.world 1 week agoThe thing I don’t get is how often are people using “looses” that it becomes possible to mix it up? I don’t think I have ever used that word in 40 years.
semperverus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My guess is that because English is such a mish-mash of other languages and has a lot of contradictory rules, the double-o in loose is how most people would guess the way to spell the “o” sound in lose. To people who haven’t been told otherwise, lose probably sounds similar to hose or dose in their heads and “oo” looks more correct despite being wrong.