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

That's just blown my Midlands brain.

I love the English language and its regional variations.

Also, tongues rhymes with songs (I blame Isaac Watts)

I think it's quite possible that when Watts was writing they did rhyme.

(I mean, at that time they rhymed for most English speakers, whereas now it's an accent thing.)

I have moved around a lot - but always the south of England (furthest north was near Bedford) and this has caused me no end of issues! I used to write slogans for competitions, and I write humorous verse. Difficult. Finger and singer definitely don't rhyme - as a PP said, you don't pronounce the g in singer. Giraffe - ji-rarf with scarf, Barth, parth, larf not bath- path- laff. Book and look - difficult to describe but more of a uk sound than an oooh sound. Battery - battery, but (and this is very outing) how about garage? Everyone seems to call it a garij. I call it a ga-rahj. (Not a ga raaaahj though) drives me nuts...

I'm from Yorkshire and singer and finger don't rhyme to me. Finger and linger have a hard G in the middle, singer has a much softer, hardly even there G sound, same in hanger.

I call it a ga-rahj. (Not a ga raaaahj though) drives me nuts...

Do you say you’re putting the car in for a service at the ga-rahj?

Sing uh
Fing guh

Does that help?

In sing and thing and wing the g is a swallowed sound on the end.

In Finger you get the swallowed g on the end of fing (Like fling) and then a guh sound on the end as well.

Also, tongues rhymes with songs
Tongue rhymes with sung or song. That's just pleased me no end. Did I mention I'm home alone with lots of kids 🤣🤣

Book and look don't they rhyme in most places? Even say Stoke when it's b uh k not b u k is l uh k not l u k

Owl towel
Calf laugh
Scone gone
Garage marriage
But
FinGer and sin-gha
No idea how giraffe and scarf would rhyme! West Scotland here!

My family say bold and bald the same way. Makes my teeth itch.

@picklemewalnuts

Sing uh Fing guh

Does that help?

In sing and thing and wing the g is a swallowed sound on the end.

In Finger you get the swallowed g on the end of fing (Like fling) and then a guh sound on the end as well.

I mean it's nonsense to my brain but yes, that helps thank you.

Hear and here
Bear and beer

I can't stop owl and towel from rhyming.

Is it tow-wool?

Calf laugh
Eh?
C ah of
L aff

No idea how giraffe and scarf would rhyme
gi rarffe. L arffe I think.

@picklemewalnuts

I can't stop owl and towel from rhyming.

Is it tow-wool?

Yes

Except tow rhymes with sow and Mo and flow so
T ou wool ??
Ou wool

@JemIsMyNameNooneElseIsTheSame

Hear and here Bear and beer

Here, hear and beer.

The bare bear without any hair needs to go over there

What a great thread.

I pronounce tennis “court” and I “caught” the ball exactly the same.

And exH reckons the way I say “Mars Bar” sounds like “Muzzbuh”.

He’s probably right My accent doesn’t do rhotic ‘r’s.

Towel, owl, Cowell, all rhyme. And foul and fowl sound the same. Scone rhymes with on.

Garage, damage, (Nigel) Farage.

Who doesn't rhyme Owl and Towel??

Yy to calf laugh half. And barf.

Garage, damage, (Nigel) Farage.
Gar ij
Dam ij
fa rah j

I might call him Nigel Farij from now on

To me owl and towel don't rhyme

Owl = Owwwl (1 syllable)
Towel = Toww-ull (2 syllables)

I'm in Leicester

@SleepingStandingUp

Garage, damage, (Nigel) Farage. Gar ij Dam ij fa rah j

I might call him Nigel Farij from now on

Do - it's v satisfying

@LovelyWeekAway

Carl And Barrel

( the Scottish pronunciation of the mans name Carl sounds like Carol )
All those rolling R’s

That reminds me of almost all of the cast of TWD taking the mick out of Andrew Lincoln every time he shouts for Carl. Corrrral, Cooooorrrraaaaallll! Corrrraaaalll!

My other half rhymes when he says 'fairly' and 'early'...

Sorry I meant 'hare' and 'hear/here'!