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Do Daniel and Samuel rhyme?

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dowotmakesuhappy · 04/12/2017 15:40

Do they rhyme in your accent?

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CatkinToadflax · 06/12/2017 12:58

I knew brothers called Daniel and Samuel and - though they don't quite rhyme in my SE accent, I did instantly think how extremely similar they sound. They had an older brother with a name that couldn't have sounded more different!

BertrandRussell · 06/12/2017 09:00

Nearly. Too close for brothers, anyway. And Dan and Sam is worse. People will comment thinking they are the only ones who have noticed, which will be very tedious for you and them after the millionth time.....

BroomstickOfLove · 06/12/2017 08:56

Not for me, and I was slightly bemused that anyone would think they rhymed, but I tried it MIL's accent, and it did. I think that if you have the sort of accent that is fairly common around London and the surrounding areas where you don't really sound the L at the end of a word, they become dan-yeaw and sam-yeaw. I can't write it properly using normal letters.

Lules · 06/12/2017 06:51

Yes, south east accent

Whythesnoring · 06/12/2017 06:42

Yes

WanderingTrolley1 · 06/12/2017 03:31

No, they don’t rhyme.

toughgetsgoing · 06/12/2017 03:30

Assonance

stellarfox · 05/12/2017 23:07

Pretty much. They rhyme if you say Samuel with the two syllables but if you assentuate the u-el then it’s three and it kind of doesn’t. I think most people will say the names so they do rhyme.

SantaStuckInTheChimney · 05/12/2017 22:13

They rhyme.

Mrsknackered · 05/12/2017 15:03

I'm a Londoner though. Where I live in Yorkshire it is Dan-I-el

Mrsknackered · 05/12/2017 15:03

I'm a Dan-yool and Sam-yool too.

Valerrie · 05/12/2017 09:14

Nope, here we say Dan-ie-l. You know, like it's spelled?

YorkieDorkie · 05/12/2017 09:05

No because that would make it Dan-you-el. Grin

StinkPickle · 05/12/2017 09:00

Yes they do

BikeRunSki · 05/12/2017 08:58

Come to West Yorkshire Monkey

MonkeyJumping · 05/12/2017 08:50

I Don't think I've ever heard anybody in real life say Daniel with 3 syllables, it's always Dan-yul or Dan-yell. So I guess it's regional.

Valerrie · 04/12/2017 19:53

I don't think I've ever heard anyone in real life say Daniel with only two syllables.

rachelracket · 04/12/2017 19:47

half rhyme

WhyOhWine · 04/12/2017 19:42

These are the names of ed milliband’s sons. I was surprised because they pretty much rhyme to me, and Sam and Dan (which they will almost certainly shorten to at some stage) even more so.
I know (adult) siblings Toby and Zoe and they say when they were children their names sounded pretty much the same (oh-ee) when shouted upstairs by an adult looking for someone to do the washing up, so they always had an excuse not to respond (“oh, I thought you said Toby”, and vice versa).

MaisyPops · 04/12/2017 19:40

Daniel = dan-iel (with 2 syllables and the i falling almost entirely into the el)

Samuel = sam-u-el (3 distinct syllables)

YouCantArgueWithStupid · 04/12/2017 19:38

No they have assonance

Do Daniel and Samuel rhyme?
Jenijena · 04/12/2017 19:34

I have a child with one of those names, when I rang my grandad (hard of hearing) he heard the other one and still finds it hard to remember the right one now, 20 months later...

DiegoMadonna · 04/12/2017 19:20

No because in English the rhyme is from the stressed syllable onwards. The stress is on the a so the n/m stop them rhyming.

This. But if you're asking about the iel/uel sound at the end as I suspect you are, then yes they sound the same to me.

deptfordgirl · 04/12/2017 19:17

Yes. I'm from the southeast and pronounce them as Dan-yul and Sam-yul.

ElizaDontlittle · 04/12/2017 18:31

Not quite.
They are both really nice names. I've known twins called this and I thought at the time, not sure I'd have used those two names together.