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

[quote shinynewapple2020]@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) [/quote]
Yes I get what you mean!

We also say "because" differently in Brum according to non-Brummie friends of mine. I'm not quite sure how it's different though, I've never really noticed it.

Be-cuss ?

[quote shinynewapple2020]@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) [/quote]
Not a true rhyme cos it's th and sh though

@janaus50s

I have this word, that grates if it’s not pronounced the way I say it, the way I think it is pronounced. Can I ask opinions here please. The word is - Battery, car battery, etc. The way I say it, sounds like Battry. But I hear others say it, sound like they are dragging the word out - Bat - ter- ree. Sorry, a bit off topic.

It is spelled bar-ter-ee so it is pronounced the same way!

@shinynewapple2020

Be-cuss ?

Yes that's how I say it! How does everyone else say it?? I think it's more like be-corse?

It is spelled bar-ter-ee so it is pronounced the same way!

Battery. It's spelled bat-ter-ee. And the whole point of the thread is that things aren't always pronounced in line with the spelling or other people's pronunciation

@SnugglySnerd
Be-cuz I ran for the buz

@SendHelp30 - I'm in Manchester. SIL & niece live in Sheffield. They say:

Curt / coat
Rerd / Road
Perp / pope
Rurl/ roll

Owl/towel/Cowell all rhyme and are one syllable for me
Scone and cone (because it’s cone with an s )
Giraffe/Scarf/Laugh/calf/half etc all rhyme because they’re pronounced with R in there even if they don’t have one
Aunt and Chant - Aunt is like Arnt and Chant is Charnt
Singer and finger definitely don’t rhyme

London side of Surrey!

An ex used to say that Skittles and Nipples rhyme but they really do not

Squirrel and girl rhyme in my accent.

Tower and tar and power and par (as in golf) sound the same, and they all rhyme with shower and hour (and hour, our and are all sound the same).

I had to make a conscious effort to change my natural pronunciation of certain words over the years as I lived in England and now Canada and I want to avoid looks, especially at work, but it comes back almost instantly when I'm speaking to people from home or go home to visit.

@ThousandsAreSailing

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

What do you mean you know it's wrong? It's not wrong just because some people don't pronounce it like you.

Having grown up close to the North York Moors, I pronounce it moo-er (like what a cow is ), and it rhymes with sewer, poor and tour.

Are you Irish Vet?

I'm not getting how finger and singer don't rhyme, how can you say singer without pronouncing the G?

Words that do rhyme (in Stoke at least)
Scone/cone
Look (pronounced like luke)/book/cook
Scarf/half/calf all rhyme but not with giraffe/laugh, which rhyme with each other

Squirrel and girl rhyme in my accent

I’ve heard people use that pronunciation For me it’s squirrel and Wirral; girl rhymes with pearl, curl, hurl, whirl and burl (as in ‘give it a burl’).

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

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

Quite a lot of old hymns also rhyme 'word' with 'Lord'. I wonder if they did commonly rhyme at one stage or if it was just widespread poetic licence, based on the fact that they look like they should rhyme!

Not my accent as I am from NI (suspect Vet is too), but local to me now - Hampshire/Sussex coast - people pronounce bold the same as bald, scold sounds the same as scald. I also used to date a man who pronounced deal and dill exactly the same way (he was born and bred in SE1 so they sounded like “diw”). As a phonics specialist teacher, fascinating!

@BlueBoar

Not my accent as I am from NI (suspect Vet is too), but local to me now - Hampshire/Sussex coast - people pronounce bold the same as bald, scold sounds the same as scald. I also used to date a man who pronounced deal and dill exactly the same way (he was born and bred in SE1 so they sounded like “diw”). As a phonics specialist teacher, fascinating!

Phonics teacher, explain bomb and tomb please

Lots of the other ones here plus
Lorry hurry
Flared heard

• I think I mean herd

Here
Ear
Year
Not rhyming words, but all pronounced in exactly the same way, as if they were all the same word (West Wales).

@FUTeams

* I think I mean herd

Don't heard and herd sound the same?

Heard and herd are pronounced herd and hurd

@SleepingStandingUp

Are you Irish Vet?

Northern Ireland (north coast) born and bred

Look and book don't rhyme for me.
Look is "luuk" and book is "boook" (ooo like a ghost says)

No and urgh rhyme for DH.

I'm a geordie btw

@BillywigSting

Heard and herd are pronounced herd and hurd

Exactly. The same.