To find this wrong in a young child's book - particularly in a Bookstart book?

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'bath' rhymed with 'laugh'.

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Is it barth rhymes with larf, or bath rhymes with laff?

It's not a particularly sophisticated rhyme - but it's a young child's book. The rhyme works though and surely that's the only point at this age.

. You're not from t'north then I take it?

bath and laff or barth and larf both have assonance (vowel sounds rhyme) but not consonance (consonant sounds rhyming)

Seems fine to me but I am an ignorant up norther.

Their is no R in bath as far as I can see my dear.

Do you dash aroundf town or daRsh around town? I think you dash. Therefore tis BATH.

No no no the rhyme doesn't work! It turns 'bath' into 'baf'.

It's one of the sounds that make ds1 struggle with his spelling - if you say 'th' as 'f' you can't work out how to spell the word.

My ds2 laughs(laffs) his head off when people say 'barf'. My sister actually tried to teach her daughter to say bath like that. Hee hee.

Thank you Panda.

The regional variation is irrelevant. Where people say 'barth' they also say 'larf', where people say 'bAth' they also say 'lAff'.

it doesn't rhyme at all
name and shame thebook please

YANBU
That is terrible! What book is it?

Whilst we're on it - scarfe does not rhyme with giraffe...so there!

Peepo Baby

It was in ds2's Bookstart bag.

You're right, tis a weak rhyme.

But for me Again doens't rhyme with Drain because I've always pronounced it 'ag-en'
Singing 'incy wincy' makes me embarassed because I've got to pronounce it differently to make it rhyme.

bath does rhyme wiht laugh

if it doent you are a chav
tis a chav detector

Quickdrawmcgraw. What other way can you pronounce 'incy wincy'?

I accept the consonance point, but can't get too uptight about this in a book designed for someone who mainly likes to tear the flappy bits.

Giraffe in a scarf. No problem.

Sorry I should have said rain doesn't rhyme with again for me. Both of which are are the end of line in the Incy Wincy song

oops - stray e... still doesn't rhyme when I read it though.

But what about when the older children join in, Elffriend? Ds1 likes to read to his younger siblings, and dd likes to participate as well by reading the pictures or reciting the story (such as it may be) from memory.

The author would probably use the excuse that they were being poetic, the word was simply the only one in the english language that they could possibly use and that even if it didn't exactly rhyme it just felt "right".

Yeah right. Chuck it and get some Hairy McLary books. Linley Dodd knows her rhymes.

I think they rhyme (but then i'm not a Chav)