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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It's a homophone. Spiritual Soul, as opposed to sole of your shoe. Or a flounder. Or the capital of South Korea. Or the one and only.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

TIL, i pronounced those words differently, probably picked them up separately from hearing them said by a US person and a UK person

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Now I want to know the two pronunciations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Sole more like "sowl"/"soh-ool", a bit like Phil Collins does in Another in Paradise https://youtu.be/Qt2mbGP6vFI?t=112

Soul/Seoul: sōl, long o sound without inflexion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

One and only? Somehow it made me remember Seal and now I've got Kiss from a Rose stuck in my head.