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??

I was thinking perhaps of cockney for the swear word, “caaahnt!”, but of course they’d use the long “a” in plant.

They rhyme to me in Scotland. My daughter has a book which has Earth and worth as rhyming words. Absolutely not with my accent.

@Shodan well it transpired that shone and dawn do rhyme if your are in the states. It's so weird but it was a bit of drip feed from the op in that thread. The OP English or British.

I say Agen but weirdly sound more Geordie when I say agayne

Totally rhyme for me.

This was so confusing to read, I was thinking they clearly rhyme 😂

I’ve just realised that I use the two different pronunciations of again depending on context, agen and agayen.

I’m West Midlands and pronounce it

scar-f and girafffff so they don’t rhyme and plant and car-nt so they don’t rhyme either.

They 100% do rhyme

But they also have Adam and atom as homophones there, the crazy splitters.

Yes they do

How do look and soot not rhyme?

I stand with Julia, her rhyming is spot on. I am in the South West though.

Does anyone say “beer can” without sounding like a Jamaican saying “bacon”?

They do not rhyme for me either. Glad to have managed to retain a bit of my northern accent despite 6 years teaching English abroad followed by 7 years in London- even if my mum tells me I sound like I've got a plum in my mouth nowadays

When I first went to start teaching English in my early twenties, I had to do an assessment to get on the TEFL course and I remember one of the questions was 'how would you teach learners the difference in pronunciation between 'put' and 'putt', which confused the hell out of me, as clearly the answer is THEY ARE PRONOUNCED THE SAME!

Not in my accent. Plant and can’t do rhyme perfectly for me.

But you are right about scarf and giraffe.

They don't even end in the same letter or sound.

Using DH as an example again, but he says “look” and “luck” identically.

"luk" and "sooot"

They don't rhyme for me either.

I only recently realised that Shaun the Sheep is meant to be a pun on 'shorn'. For me Shaun and shorn have distinctly different sounds.

No they don't

They both rhyme for me but they rhyme with aunt rather than ant 😂

How can we be 90-odd messages into this thread and no-one has mentioned 'certain' and 'curtain' from Scarecrows Wedding?

Although my vote for the weakest line - not rhyme, just line - in the Julia Donaldson ouevre is 'Bill pressed the button and Janet steered' from the Smeds and the Smoos. WTF.

Put is more like 'poot' though.

If you're posh.

No - not like a cross between a pirate and a zoo keeper!

It has an 'ah' in the middle. Jer-ah-ff.

This thread highlights one of the many reasons why phonics is so hopeless when it comes to the English language...