Scarf and Giraffe don't rhyme

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Another night ready Julia Donaldson books and another frustrating non-rhymey rhyme.

Scarf and giraffe don't rhyme. Neither do plant and can't.

Anyone else??

Maybe more like pill-ur. But there’s an audible r.

🤯

Scottish and Irish accents pronounce the r.

Those rhyme for me I say them with a short A sound.

Canadian here.

Scarf and giraffe don't rhyme. Neither do scarf and laugh. Idea and ear don't rhyme. Nee nah and car don't rhyme.

i usually like Julia Donaldson's books, but I hate The Smartest Giant in Town.

Me too. it’s not quite perfect as a rhyme. But it’s way better than gorilla and pillar which are never going to rhyme in a rhotic accent.

They rhyme.

no returns.

Here’s a Renfrewshire librarian reading Oi frog. She’s trying bloody hard to produce a voice for that cat that can rhyme all the stupid rhymes.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWcuMF_x7xs

Agree!!

They all rhyme for me

scarf - giraffe
plant - can’t
one - gun
plant - ant

all rhyme

Ah yes, but you're Canadian.

I've always wanted to visit Canada, is it nice?

Depends where you live, surely?

Scarf and giraffe don't rhyme because one ends in arf and one ends in affe.

Plant and can't rhyme because they both end in ant

scone and cone or scone and gone

So firstly I'm reminded of a great yoke in some newspaper that asked you "does these words rhyme" about 100 times and then told you where you were from.

Secondly I'm glad that someone brought up sofa and gopher.

Has anyone mentioned Cinderella in the cellar? And the ladybirds idea that she whispered in everyone's ear? Kills me. Every single time I run into those ones.

@MooseBreath nee-nah and car!!!!! Every time I read that I then massively confused myself and start trying to figure out how in the name of god you can get them to rhyme and come completely distracted - thank god it's at the end.

For me, scarf rhymes with giraffe, plant with can't, car with nee-nah. All hinge on an 'aah' sound (like when a doctor tells you to open wide and say 'aah'). Definitely not an 'ar' sound. That's just weird.

Paws, pause, pours? All identical :)

Secondly I'm glad that someone brought up sofa and gopher.

Me too😀
My poor children were very confused!

Plant and can't rhyme because they both end in ant

Yes. Or alternatively they can both rhyme with aunt.

They both rhyme for me, though they rhyme with aren’t here!

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror.
If anything I could say that this cab was rare,
But I thought, "nah, forget it - yo, home to Bel Air!"

Oh heavens, don't bring scones into the discussion, or all is lost…

I can't believe it took so long to get to the abominations of idea and ear, and nee-nah and car.

Honestly, the things the English do to the letter R, what did it ever do to you? <tuts>

They rhyme for Australians!

They do where I live.