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.

Short A in giraffe, not girarffe (A like in man).

I realise that. I wasn't not sure you did.

Cellar/ cinderella ? Do you say the r in cellar?

South coast and it rhymes for me perfectly

A more northern giraffe with a short a.

It's not quite a rhyme for me - sun is an uh vowel, everyone is a very slightly rounder short oh vowel. But saying everyone with an uh sound isn't really weird to me. It's a very subtle difference. It's not really the oh from uh oh, it's shorter. I might need to get the IPA out...
(Accent mostly Dorset with interference from other southern accents.)

with a flat northern vowel! A not aarrr

It’s a stretch for me to get them to rhyme.
U and O are different sounds.

Londoner rhymes for me

As in Sun is S U N, not S oh N.

Same here, I’m in NI and always hated this bit as cellar for me is ‘sell-ur’ vs ‘ella’ for the end of Cinderella

To me one sounds like gone with a w rather than a g sound at the start. Doesn't rhyme with sun at all. Likewise giraffe and scarf do not rhyme. I seem to remember something in a Roald Dahl book about the word aunt (ant vs aren't).

It rhymes for me - East Scotland

rhotic and not a touch of RP

One rhymes with on, gone, shone, Bonn, con, John, Don, upon, Ron
sun rhymes with bun, done, fun, gun, won (as in pp of win), ton (as in the weight), hun (as in Attila or netmums), both parts of London, nun, none, pun, run

(scone, however, rhymes with zone)

have you read Bedtime Bear? I loved that book but had to get H to read it because I couldn't bring myself to rhyme owl and towel ;-)

How on earth can One rhyme with On?! The E is literally there, making a difference.

But on rhymes with gone and shone. One rhymes with on when I say it. It doesn't rhyme with won.

Giraffe and scarf definitely don’t rhyme though!

They do to me (South Londoner)

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

I can.

Plum pie in the sun, I spy everyone!
sun [sʌn]
everyone[ˈɛvrɪwʌn]

RP.

Works in Warwickshire. I'm a west midlander!
Allan was born in Croydon and
Allan Ahlberg was born on Croydon and brought up in Oldbury, Sandwell.

I pronounce 'one' same as 'shone'', 'con' , 'gone' . With my accent, 'sun' rhymes with 'bun' , 'shun' , 'done' , 'Mon' (day) - East Midlands born/bred.

Giraffe & laugh don't rhyme with scarf where I'm from!

Giraffe & laugh don't rhyme with scarf where I'm from! They do where I'm from - laugh rhymes with caff. My accent isn't RP.

I am loving the variety on this thread!

Posh-ish southern English here, and rhymes. In my younger-days West Yorkshire accent it rhymes too, although I couldn’t mix and match!

I have a South African accent and those words all rhyme when I say them.

This.

i am really struggling as to how one rhymes with gone or shone. I am more than aware of accents and can normally see how other people would say things even if it’s not how I say it (poshish SE). But I can’t get this at all.

Actually I guess it would rhyme with gone (gun) or shone (shun)?