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??

Would, erm “c*nt” also rhyme with those for you?

Oh another trap I always fall into!

Even though I know it's coming I still struggle to say it as it just sounds wrong!!!

It's wrong when I force a rhyme and wrong when I don't.

I feel like Julia Donaldson has a bit of a monopoly going with books though.
And I HATE Imelda Thornton reading allllll her stories on the yoto player. I'm trying to get my son to sleep and she's screaching out the speaker! Argh

WTF is this a Pantomime. 😂

They do for me! Northern relatives would agree though.

Emm...no?

I will not be convinced I am wrong because I am not. So there.

I'm from the south and in my accent it rhymes.

Depends... Do we need to speak in rhymes?

Plant and can't rhyme for me.

Scarf and giraffe - not even close to rhyming.

Here's another combination for consideration: Pain and again. They don't rhyme for me - I say Payne and Agenn.

OK, that’s interesting. I’m not from the U.K., so am trying to pick my way through accents, and thought (wrongly) that I had a handle on yours.

Some English people pronounce can’t like caaaarrrrn’t though

Only pirates, surely?

All the others do rhyme with each other.

Except shone and dawn. What kind of tomfoolery is that?

Who rhymes plant with cunt??!!

Plunt?

Oh no we don't.

Yes they do!

We could go round in circles all night, but it's entirely dependent on accent.

So for the people who do pronounce them to rhyme, does giraffe have an ‘arr’ sound in the middle?

Just asked DH this one, and he thinks that he might use both forms of again in normal speech.

He’s a Northerner who’s worked in a profession in London for decades, so possible oscillates between forms of some words.

Well I mean we don't roll the r like a pirate but loads of kids up here spell can't as 'carnt' when they're learning spelling.

They don't in my northern accent but they will do for people who speak RP.

I don’t think they rhyme either. I think she is really overrated but I know that is not a popular opinion!

Yeah they rhyme.

I'm from the Midlands but with no real accent. Certainly not southern.

They do for south eastern me.

I say plarnt and carnt

Scarf and girarffe

cheers to that

I’d say pl-ar-nt and c-ar-nt so they would rhyme for me

I’d do sc-ar-f and gir- ar-f so would rhyme for me but it feels slightly more awkward.

pain and again wouldn’t rhyme for me. I’m closer to
p-ai-n and a-gen

Are you genuinely lost as to those who say they don't rhyme? Have you never heard someone with a northern English accent say plant to rhyme with ant? Or path to rhyme with math? Or grass to rhyme with gas?