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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There once was a lady called Cath
Who sat in a scalding hot bath
The heat was no laugh
And the pain was so naff
She ran nude to the end of her path

See? Plenty of rhymes for bath and laugh! (Sort of... )

I don't care what anyone else says, when I say laugh and barth - they rhyme, end of.

Barth / laugh
laugh / barth

It ain't perfect, but it's a rhyme enough for me.

End of as far as I'm concerened.

LOL Ellbell!

Read it in a cockney Eastender style accent. Rhyme is spot on.

"'bath' rhymed with 'laugh'."

it's nuffink to do with sarf/norf london (am from northwest england btw) - f is not th

(tc knows this, but I can excuse her bc of pg hormones )

can I digress?

why do Yorkshire folk say corncreet

for concrete? [baffled emoticon]

Oh for crying out loud!

On the front of the book to which teh OP refers are the words "big flaps for little babies to turn".

I can't believe people are getting their knickers in a twist about this.

Oh yes. You're quite right. It's posher than posh

We used to go to Pinner Park to look at the lovebirds in the aviary. I can remember the play bit like it was yesterday - there was this really wierd climbing think shaped like a giant insect. Doubt it's still there now. And going to the swimming pool with the bright blue roof. Every bloody day. In fact, that's where I did my first width.

GM lives in Raisins Hill. Not at all posh in the Pinner scale of things.

The emoticon is suddenly quite inadequate.

pooka are you on the right thread here?

It's fine.

No, it doesn't imo

LOL Pooka is chatting to me, sorry!

Sorry! Was hijacking a very important and serious thread about a really non-trivial matter to pass on my memories of glorious pinner to TC.

I had no idea what you were on about, but it still had more sense in it than the nonsense of this thread.
I am wearing out my keys today.

Am I missing something here ? - bath and laugh are perfectly ok

I think people need to stop analysing things so much. It's a book for babies. A picture/board book if I recall correctly. Even if "bath" and "laugh" are not true rhymes, does it really matter?
At the moment ds loves Dinosaurumpus (which is another bookstart book). It's a crap read, but he likes the pictures and the rhythms (when I manage to say "deinosuchuses" properly).
Basically, at that age an interest in books is to be encouraged. Nitpicking about lines that do not scan properly not really important.

agree pooka !

ive been reading thread and saying bath and laugh over and over!where i live people take piss out of my accent,apparently i have a snobby accent(i dont)

yes it matters.

becuase people will start saying " am just getting in the baff"

and baff is wrong

wrong
wrooooooooong

its perpetuating something as a norm

sure the kids wont understand but the parents ( ala ThIS THREaD) will think its ok

and its snot

baff is wrong, yes but bath is not!

Has Custardo been abducted by aliens and returned to her home town as a pod person - one who can be bothered to condemn a flap book for BABIES for having a slightly inaccurate rhyme?

i think i say barf and larf,is the wrong?

I'm in publishing, me. And IMO - rhyming is hard to do well and only a few writers do do it well. Combine that with the fact that a lot of children's books - especially, I'm sorry to say, those aimed specifically at schools and reading schemes - are dashed off cheaply and quickly and don't use the best authors, and hey presto you have a badly written and unsatisfying "rhyming" book.

This is NOT a proper rhyme - maybe in a few accents it would work but basically it's a bit pants. It is an almost-rhyme, that some authors and editors would think they can get away with - and if you read a lot of children's books you'll see quite a lot of rubbishy, not quite-right rhymes like this. It's a shame, and I agree if you want a more enjoyable and better-written rhyming book you have to turn to trade titles - Lynley Dodd, Julia Donaldson and Roald Dahl are all good for this.

The moral of the story is - manke sure schoolbooks aren't the only books your kids see, because they'll be all the poorer for it.