Word pronunciation

[PurpleDiva22]

My daughter has a book that rhymes. They (more than once) rhyme saw with floor and galore. I've never heard a pronunciation of the word "saw" that rhymes with floor or galore. I know this thread could cause rifts so I'm hoping someone can explain it to me without there being all out war! 😅 I've tried Googling it and didn't get an answer.

All those words rhyme in my dialect - bit hard to explain it to you without knowing how you pronounce saw really!

It rhymes in my accent because I don't particularly pronounce the 'r' in floor and galore. Floor sounds the same as flaw when I say it.

It's an accent thing.

Presumably you have a rhotic accent?

They all rhyme in my dialect, as indeed does 'war' if that helps!

They rhyme where I’m from too. Saw and floor both have an ‘or’ sound at the end.

Saw is soyer, rhyming with floyer and galore?

Floor, wall, door, galore all rhyme for me, not sure that helps you OP!

Saw. Galore. Bore. Whore. More. Paw. Law. In awe

They all rhyme for me.

They all rhyme in my SE England accent. All end in the “or” sound.

All rhyme for me too, I'm afraid. I've got an RP accent, if that helps at all.

My accent is RP, so they all rhyme to me.

I don't understand how they WOULDN'T all rhyme to be honest

They all rhyme for me also. I'm not British, but English is my 1st language and I've lived in Southern England for 21yrs if relevant.

OP- how do you pronounce them and where are you from? 🤔

Saw rhymes with sore, and paw, pour and poor all rhyme too which all also rhyme with floor and galore - SW here

I have a friend who pronounces floor a bit more like “floo-er”

As a pp said, it’s a rhotic versus non-rhotic accent thing. Non-rhotic accents don’t pronounce ‘r’ in certain positions, including at the end of ‘floor’, making it, roughly, ‘flaw’. Or making ‘galore’ ‘gallOW’. It’s a slightly different vowel sound.

I can see how floor wouldn’t rhyme with saw if said with a Lancashire accent as floor is pronounced flew-er.

Edit: But then aren’t saw (and sore) pronounced sewer so they would still rhyme with floor.

“GallOW” would rhyme with cow in my accent. Not floor or flaw.

Me neither unless OP is American where they emphasise their Rs, therefore making saw sound slightly different to floor and galore.

They don’t emphasise them, they just pronounce them. Not all US accents don’t, either.

Also Irish accents, Scottish accents, West Country accents. All rhotic.

Bath rhymes with laugh too

But surely if you were reading a poem where ‘galore’ is rhymed with ‘saw’, you wouldn’t pronounce it to rhyme with ‘cow’?

I'm Scottish. Saw definitely does not rhyme with floor!
Floor does rhyme with galore.

I'd have to throw that book out if the rhyme didn't work for me.

What does it rhyme with?