Accents and Each Peach Pear Plum

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Where do you have to be from to make the last page of Each Peach Pear Plum rhyme?

Plum pie in the sun, I spy everyone!

My accent is a mess having moved a lot. I can see that it needs to be sun and everywun, but if I do it in my best European English RP I get everyone to rhyme with on. My native brummie give suuun through which doesn't rhyme with everywun either! Alan Ahlberg was a Midlander, so I thought it should work in brummie.

Rhymes for me. SSBE.

If you day
Sun
Every un
I've moved lots as well but mostly kept my midlands vowels

What does sun rhyme with for you then?

It's not supposed to rhyme precisely, it's a 'close enough' fit.

When I used to read this outloud for my son I never even tried to make it rhyme.
I just shouted the last word out so it was I spy EVERYONE and my son joined in and we laughed.

sun/everywun. It works for me. I also say wun two three rather then won two three.

Edit: actually won as in 'I won a prize' is wun too. I meant I don't say 'one' to rhyme with 'on' or 'gone'.

West Scotland and rhymes for me!

It rhymes for me ( southern accent, can’t remember what you call it officially! Home Counties).

everyone for me is pronounced with an “uh” sound in it (“everywuhn”).

this rhymes with the “uh” sound in sun (“suhn”)

Wun and won sound the same to me.

I'm from West Yorkshire and it rhymes perfectly for me!

everyone and sun rhyme for me. South East.

I don’t get how everyone would end in an on sound? It doesn’t in my London/RPish accent. One - wun one its own or as part of a compound word for me.

Yes, me too, I realised that after I'd typed it. and clarified, maybe you didn't see the edit.

there was a book when my dc were little that had a “giraffe in a scarf” which doesn’t worked if you’ve northern! All the animas had rhymes that worked u til this one!

I can’t remember name of book cos I’m perimenopausal now!

It's sün for me. Everything else with a un rhymes, then done, the start of money, in getting to think of some more. Everyone is nasal like the French un or with o like binoculars depending on how I try to say it. My accent is very inconsistent though because my parents and DH are all northerners from different places and they're the only native speakers I've spoken to regularly since I left my posh southern University.

Rhymes for me, home counties.
(struggling to think how it doesn't rhyme to be honest!)

Scotland and it rhymes for me.

In LUNdon the SUN shines on everyWUN which is great FUN, HUN!
Londoner. All of the above rhyme precisely! 😂

Haha, that took me a few moments to work out! It doesn't rhyme at all

I can't remember the name of the book either but I know the one you mean.

As a person who grew up in the South East but taught mainly in the North I frequently had to change my accent slightly to make things work for the children but that was a stretch too far. .

That was that one about the Scruffiest Giant. I'm SE England and giraffe and scarf don't really rhyme in my accent either, I remember having to say girarffe.

But sun and everyone rhyme perfectly.

NE originally.

Does not rhyme for me.

Everyone is a one not wun sound. And one is not wun either. One is the same o sound as on.

Rhymes for me! My accent is fairly generic Estuary English from Kent.

I can’t think of any accents I’m familiar where it wouldn’t rhyme. Everyone I know who pronounced “sun” differently to me also pronounces “one” differently to me, so they still rhyme.

I’m midlands and it doesn’t for me. One rhymes with bonbon. Sun rhymes with fun

Same.