Obviously the plural of foot is feet, so the plural of book should be beek.
Or one sheep should be a shoop.
There's also the English Vowel Shift. Which means words either side of it are inconsistent.
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both come from the same root
*purpoose
*perpus
Lowe's loose lows lose loss.
Only online and since I hear the words I read it is really fucking annoying.
It's been years since I've seen people misspelling lose as loose, but I do remember when it was pretty common to see.