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

@merryhouse

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

Tongues rhymes with rungs.

The ‘r’s in squirrel and girl are rolled which is why they rhyme.

Squi-rrrrrril
Gi-rrrrril (Two syllables, gi-ril)

It’s actually really hard to explain! Glaswegian if that helps. Couldn’t find a video.

@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.

This has made my brain hurt.

I think all of these words I say like:

Fing - uh
Sing - uh
Hang - er

I've never noticed anyone saying Fing-ger 🤯

Fewer, tour and pure all rhyme in my accent.

@BigGlasses

In my accent Luke and look are pronounced exactly the same. DH cannot get his head round it. He seems to be able to pronounce them differently. they are homophones to me!

Fairy and ferry are also homophones to me

Stoke?

I'm Stoke and say Look would be the same as Luke.

We're definitely in the minority with that one though

I now live in Hampshire and my Husband is absolute spot on Received Pronunciation and I often find myself repeating things after him like a parrot in his accent which annoys him because I've paid zero attention to the actual content of what he said!

Singer and finger definitely rhyme to me in Lancs.

When I read 'The Smartest Giant in Town' to the children at work I always have to stop and think about the 'My tie is a scarf for a cold giraffe'. It's ji-raff to me!

BlusteryShowers are you from the North East ? They all rhyme for me too.

@BlusteryShowers

Fewer, tour and pure all rhyme in my accent.

Same as me! Geordies?!

Yes, but @DotForShort, my parents named me and they obviously didn't have your accent. It's my name and to be correct it should be pronounced the way I say it, not how someone else imagines it should sound

I'm really enjoying reading all your posts in your accents!
Coke and cake sound the same when I say them.

When DH was a student in the 60s he went out drinking with a bunch of med students (never again).

One of them was a Geordie and had the melodic accent. He was drunkenly and earnestly chatting up a woman at the bar and thinking he was getting somewhere when the barman told him she was a prostitute.

His response "Ooah Noah a hoah."
(oh no a whore)

Ps I adore a Stoke accent - it's my favourite. I once picked one out from a distance in Italy! The people were very surprised 😂

I stop myself from saying this because I know it's wrong but naturally I would say
Moor to rhyme with sewer (as in where crap goes not a person who sews)
Is there anyone else out there who does the same

@SnugglySnerd

I still don't get how singer and finger wouldn't rhyme! I have never heard anyone say song or singer without the g!

I am also West Mids. Year and were rhyme for me. Also tooth is pronounced "tuth" but I can't think of another word that rhymes with that.

Ah, I do love a pronunciation/rhyming thread.

Though, yes what does rhyme with the Brummie* tuth! What about the commonly used words azimuth and bismuth (at a stretch)?

(*Is it actually the whole of the West Midlands? I had thought it as a Brummie thing.)

Err nerr!

Coke and work also rhyme (cerk and werk)

@doadeer and @Violetparis I'm in Cumbria- the "other" Geordies. Or Welsh. Or Scottish. Nobody can ever place the Cumbrian accent

Is it actually the whole of the West Midlands? I had thought it as a Brummie thing.)
It's tuth in Wolverhampton. Poo-lee tuth is why you go to the dentist

Cah-lf
Calf with a long ah sound and very little of l pronounced too.

Mine is a godawful Wicklow accent (East coast of Ireland).

Girls and pearls rhyme. I am a Wiltshire lass but only have an accent on certain words and the r sound.

There’s a couple of Julia Donaldson books I hate reading aloud because you just can’t rhyme scarf and laugh or aunt and chant.
The random phonics rhyming (or lack of) that confuses me most is how we have womb and tomb, but bomb isn’t pronounced boom.

@SnugglySnerd

Don't you say tooth (tuth) brush as rhyming words ? I'm sure I do (although this thread is confusing me as to what I do say lol)

@Medianoche

There’s a couple of Julia Donaldson books I hate reading aloud because you just can’t rhyme scarf and laugh or aunt and chant. The random phonics rhyming (or lack of) that confuses me most is how we have womb and tomb, but bomb isn’t pronounced boom.

To me, aunt and chant do rhyme! Aunt is pronounced the same as the insect (ant) where I live.

@MynameisMary

Yes, but *@DotForShort*, my parents named me and they obviously didn't have your accent. It's my name and to be correct it should be pronounced the way I say it, not how someone else imagines it should sound

My name has the letter R in it. I have a Rhotic accent (as did my parents) and pronounce the R. I would never dream of telling someone with a non-Rhotic accent that they were saying my name incorrectly, although they never pronounce the R. I would spend half my life “correcting” most people I encounter in England if I chose to go down that route.

@iklboo mine are the same as yours. I’m South Yorkshire