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'm sounding some of these words out in an accent that is very much my natural one, and I sound like something from an Angela Brazil boarding school book.

They rhyme for me in my accent.

It does always amaze me how much variation there is in how we pronounce things and how accepts play such a big part

very much NOT my natural accent.

How can one and gun ryhme?

You don't say wun for one?

Lots and lots of us say wun for one.

They do not rhyme at all up north.

I mean...it's a bit of midweek tomfoolery.

Unless you actually fell over then be careful.

Both of them rhyme for me (down south) but shone and dawn don’t.

plant and can't seems fine to me. Scarf and giraffe, however, is a shambles.

Lots and lots of us don't

One is won
Gun is gun
Won is wun

I admit I don’t have a very strict affiliation to my accent - but don’t you just see the rhyme on the page and make it fit? It is a childrens book - it’s not exactly tricky

Change your accent to make them rhyme but don't diss the Donaldson!!

Yeah well door and drawer aren't supposed to rhyme but you'd be amazed at the number of people who make them sound the same

Gee, no shit!

My response was to the person saying 'You don't say wun for one?'

Nah cos then it sounds ridiculous.

I want a bescarfed giraffes to at least sound sensible

I'm proposing she rewrites the whole collection in a northern accent. Is that too much to ask?!

Morris:

one rhymes with shone and gone and (maybe) scone; and wan; and won ton

one does not rhyme with done; or won or ton

one does not rhyme with lone, or phone or tone or hone or (maybe) scone

I naturally say giraffe to rhyme with naff, but I can switch with barely a thought if the text calls for it. Same as I can say GARRidge or gar-AAJH interchangeably (but I prefer GARR-aajh, just to mix things up).

S1 had his own idiom as a small child - bath with a short a (from me) and room with the almost-rum clipped vowel (from his dad).

MY personal bugbear is from Bedtime Bear, which is otherwise delightful:

An owl
in a towel

I couldn't do it. H thinks I'm weird.

No because if I read it in a Southern accent with the long a my kids would laugh. That's laugh with a short a.

I say won for one as in wonton.

But don't you ever hear other accents? I mean, anyone on eastenders for example.

Imagine Phil Mitchell shouting 'give me one good reason I shouldn't snack you in the mouth'
He'd say wun wouldn't he.

I read all the Julia Donaldson books in a variety of random accents and voices or in the form of a song so I can just say them in an accent that fits as they wouldn't naturally rhyme for me.
The scarecrows wedding sounds best in my uncles glaswegian accent, stick man is fun to sing and we do the gruffalo in an exaggerated posh southerner voice.
Its more fun and they can all rhyme if I want them to.

Plant and can't rhyme if you have Northern Irish vowel sounds.

Not read the full thread and vaguely related, but does anyone happen to know if translated versions of kids books such as JD ones rhyme in the non-english version?

Oooo now I also want to know this..

This post reminds me of cat in the hat