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Hans51 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Pronunciation of 'lose'

"I need to lose some weights."

I know the pronunciation of lose is [lu:z], but I just hear it like [lu:s] even in dictionaries below.

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/lose

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/lose

Could you check this out please? What do you think?

Thank you so much as usual and have a good day.
  

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I never hear that in California. [lu:s] is the pronunciation of "loose", which makes it a very different meaning.

— Vorpar

  • I never hear that in California.
  • [lu:s] is the pronunciation of "loose", which makes it a very different meaning.
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I never hear that in California. [lu:s] is the pronunciation of "loose", which makes it a very different meaning.
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Thank you so much and I agree with you but did you hear it in those dictionaries I linked? I still hear [-s] but it might be because I am not a native English speaker. What do you think and hear? Is there a [-s] or [-z] in the dictionaries?
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I hear /z/ in all three pronunciations.
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fivejedjonI hear /z/ in all three pronunciations.
Me too.
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