Words that rhyme in your accent

[SleepingStandingUp]

Just said to DS

Count down from 10
Then count back up again

Which rhymed. Then I said it again and it didn't. Which made me think about the nightmare of writing rhyming books for children and the whole giraffe/scarf thing which defiantly doesn't work in my accent.

Also ftr I'm team:
My scone
Is alone
He likes to moan
But it lets his hone
His sculpting of bone.

God I hate teaching my kid phonics
Roll on September

@alexdgr8

i had thought you were russian, and trying to learn/speak english.

i still don't see why beryl becomes burl. it's a different name.
beh-rill. two sounds. burl is one sound.
esp if swirl becomes swirrell.
it sounds contrary to me. a two-sound name is changed into a different name with one sound. whereas a word with one elided sound in the middle is made into two sounds. so it's not an inability to say it.

You're really not coming across well here. No, it's not contrary. Accents are different. Words sound different in different accents. How is that so hard to understand?

Beryl and swirl rhyme for me. There is a very slight 'il' sound at the end of both so they are more 1.5 syllables than 2. Your pronunciation seems to have equal emphasis on the 'beh' and the 'ril'. For me, the first part of the word is very short and has less emphasis than the second.

My name has sounds that are all individually perfectly possible for English people to say correctly. However, I have yet to meet an English person who can pronounce my name correctly. I don't assume they are being contrary. I assume that the combination of sounds and the subtle emphases are alien to their accent and so they struggle with the combination.

not being rude, but

I find that when someone uses this phrase they are indeed being rude. And they think they're being oh so clever by pretending, innocently, that they just don't understand.

Incidentally, why on earth would a native Russian speaker even be contributing to a discussion on the accents of English speakers.

You're being goady and you know it.

i think non-native english speakers are quite interested in how english words and names are pronounced, esp as it is not a strictly phonetic language.
several speakers of other languages have identified themselves on this very thread.
i had thought you were russian because i got you mixed up with someone else who was russian. on a previous thread you both contributed next to each other and i'd misremembered the names.

i hadn't noticed the poster's name until i was wondering what accent you were referring to , re the egg rhymes with vague discussion.
so i glanced up, and thought, oh that must be the russian accent.

Ok, fair enough. Sorry I accused you of being goady.

I'm probably overly sensitive because anyone from Ireland could tell you how tiring it is to be constantly told that your speech is wrong and/or lazy.

Glasgow-- Hand and pond 🤣 Wall and paw 🤣

ok.
all's well that ends well.

anyone remember the great pork does/not rhyme with fork debate !

@Bairnsmum05

Glasgow-- Hand and pond 🤣 Wall and paw 🤣

are you from Glasgow, if so please clarify. how do you pronounce glasgow. i had gathered it was glass-gow rather than as in london, glarrrrrrrrs-gow. but the other day i heard a scottish person, i mean with a scottish accent, though i wouldn't know what part of scotland, and i'm sure they said, glarrrs-gow. ? interesting that it is a welsh name. named by the welsh tribes. something like place of the blue-green hollow.

Well he presumably is learning phonics at school yeah, they closed them all down a while ago now 😃

anyone remember the great pork does/not rhyme with fork debate eh?

@alexdgr8 I would say Glazz Go. Some weegies would say Glezz Ga. 😂

I say glazzgo as well, I think is pretty standard, I’m from quite a bit further north and now live near Edinburgh... and it sounds the same anywhere I’ve heard people say it tbh.

Well apart from the glezzga weegies, lol, but at least that makes sense - how Edinburgh becomes embra I’ve no clue.

Perth, birth, worth

Round here (East Anglia) ‘new’ rhymes with ‘loo’ and ‘here’ with ‘bear’. ‘Over’ rhymes with ‘hoover’. So noo, hair, oover.

@RaisinsRuinEverything it's oover there?? 🤣 Never heard that!

Round here (East Anglia) ‘new’ rhymes with ‘loo’

How else would you say them? I've only ever heard them rhyming.

@OchonAgusOchonO I wouldn't say Noo I would say the the N with a kind of Y sound up in Scotland. Really hard to describe but don't know anybody who would say it like Noo.

@Bairnsmum05 - I wouldn't say noo either. I'd consider that an American prononciation. It'd be the ending that would rhyme for me. Sounds like you say it the same as me (Ireland) but I'd still consider that to rhyme with loo. Maybe because I say loo more like lew

@RaisinsRuinEverything

Round here (East Anglia) ‘new’ rhymes with ‘loo’ and ‘here’ with ‘bear’. ‘Over’ rhymes with ‘hoover’. So noo, hair, oover.

My Norfolk GPs always said Noo for new. I’d forgotten.

@OchonAgusOchonO I'm over thinking it now and can't say it properly now 😂

Ear and air.

Even more confusing to many Brits, to me peer, pair, pare, pier and pear all rhyme

“Even more confusing to many Brits, to me peer, pair, pare, pier and pear all rhyme grin”

Ah - bet I can confuse people even more than those all rhyming...

Peer and pier rhyme with each other, pare and pear also rhyme with each other but not the first two...

Pair does not rhyme.

Stare and stair also do not sound the same.

But stair and pair rhyme though.