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??

Plant and can't rhyme perfectly in US English (I know US English has many variations; on this case I mean in the "Ohio Newscaster" generic "proper" accent that's roughly equivalent to UK "received pronunciation").

My 4yo nephew (Scottish) pronounces scarf as skaff (as in "I've got my skaff to keep me waaaam!") so I suppose that does rhyme with giraffe.

This!

Julia Donaldson lived in Glasgow for years although she has now returned to southern England. That’s why I’m surprised she didn’t pick up what scarf/giraffe don’t rhyme for northerners and Scots.

I think we need Julia Donaldson to step in and confirm exactly what accent this giant has to make these words rhyme.

I really want to cuddle an owl in a towel now.

I don’t even expect rhyming picture books to rhyme in my accent. Not Julia Donaldson. None of them.

I don’t put on a fake English accent. I embrace the awkwardness of the non rhymes. Wholeheartedly.

DS had me reading Oi frog tonight (not Donaldson but rhyme based) and I in no way hide that sofa and gopher don’t rhyme. Nor gorilla and pillar. And so on.

It’ll be preparation for when he gets those stupid phonics books that claim that paw, sore and dinosaur all rhyme. I’m not going to pretend they do.

But they do rhyme! 🧐

WHERE ARE YOU FROM THAT NONE OF THESE RHYME??!!!

The gruffalo in Glaswegian however is excellent.

(But they don't rhyme with ant
for me)

Rhymes for me

These rhyme?

None of these examples are rhyming for me (North east accent).

I quite enjoy weird American rhyming books where "squirrel" rhymes with "girl" and "mirror" rhymes with "peer".

Squuuuurl

west central Scotland.

here an example of the intersection of Julia Donaldson and phonics that does not work in my accent.

They don't rhyme.

Like in Superworm; chant and aunt do not rhyme.

Stresses me out 🙃

It's the oi frog rhymes that I don't understand how they dont rhyme.

How do you pronounce gorilla and pillar?

They rhyme for southerners and that's all that matters.
There was a quiz show a few months ago that tried to pretend paws, pause and pours all sound the same.

Oh I’d forgotten the lions on irons. All the Oi books are full of dubious rhymes. Yet DS loves them.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gPjtnWMaYh4

They rhyme for me.

I have the advantage with a variety of authors that my parents were northern, with Liverpudlian relatives, but I was brought up dahn sarf , spent 6 years in brum and then moved north again so I can adjust my vowels as necessary.

Gaw-rill-ah

pill-ar. With an r. Audibly.

Central Scotland I can rhyme squirrel and girl.

Yes, they both rhyme absolutely fine.