Accents and Each Peach Pear Plum

[Paaseitjes]

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.

Plum doesn't need to rhyme with one. It's sun that needs to rhyme.

Indeed 😁
DD, was born in Yorkshire, and I really confused her when she was learning to read and I said Uh for umbrella, she said "no mum, that's uh for orange". She would have said ooh for umbrella.

Rhymes for this Aussie, as does “giraffe with a scarf”!

I was the other way round. I did occasionally explain to my Reception class that I learned to speak somewhere else and said some things differently to them. They seemed to understand and will have heard different accents on TV. The Northern u as in umbrella was the most difficult for me.

An m at the end can't rhyme with a n sound at the end. That's not a rhyme.

Of course. I am unfamiliar with this poem, but one doesn't rhyme with sun.

Sun rhymes with bun
One rhymes with shone, con, gone (and scone in my world 😁)
South London born and bred

It seems to work for a lot of people on this thread.

That's because we all live in different parts of the English speaking world.

I love all the differences in accents. It would be boring if we all sounded the same. In any case, as long as we can make ourselves understoood, that's all that matters.

Giraffe doesn't rhyme with scarf either unless I put on an exaggerated funny voice to read the story!

For me, one rhymes with john

Essex and rhymes for me. Wun/sun.

I have never heard anybody pronounce 'one' to rhyme with 'shone'.

I don't really speak RP. I'm a native English speaker in Europe, so speak an exaggerated posh English with slightly germanic grammar to make sure I'm understood. I sound comedy English here, but get asked what country in from in the UK

I can just hear you saying ‘scaaaaf’!

😁

I would normally say everyone rhymes with gone, but can also rhyme with done in some accents or depending where it is in a sentence.

You adjust accordingly with poetry / rhymes.

And baath and paast and laaast! 🤭

I also live in the north, which is fairly entertaining!

Well no- not a proper rhyme. But a storybook rhyme, surely? 🤣

Ah ha! All bets are off, then! You have a unique pronunciation and will have to compose a nursery rhyme cannon of your very own!

You must have done. I have friends from different parts of the UK and am from a different part of the UK to where I live now. Do you never watch TV or go to the cinema?

I can’t get “mother Hubbard down the cellar, I spy Cinderella” to rhyme in my accent sadly.

A relative by marriage - 'take a barf'

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One - gone
Sun - bun
Scone rhymes with cone
Garage pronounced similar to damage: not ga rahj

Brummie though lived in London for half my life. Works for me and one and won sound the same

It rhymes perfectly well in my mild Black Country accent and in my dp’s much stronger Black Country accent.

Giraffe and scarf definitely don’t rhyme though!

I don't understand how they don't rhyme? They absolutely do rhyme for me. RP here. How are you saying them that they don't?