WRT accents and rhyming games on the internet

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We have a southern accent in our family. I'm not snobby about accents, but DD2 was playing a BBC Bitesize game last night about rhyming, and it had "what rhymes with 'should'"? and then it had three choices, none of which, IMO, rhymed with "should" until I realised the voice-over had a northern accent and that the answer was "mud"!

It has really, really annoyed me. Not because it's northern, but because there is no way my DD would have worked it out herself!

AIBU to be annoyed about this? Are there other rhyming things that would be different depending on your accent? Are there any rhyming things that would work regardless of your accent? And if so, shouldn't these games use those words? How else can rhyming games (in books or anything) work for all children?

Should doesn't rhyme with food.

snood

Thinking "should" might be the consistent word, and mud changes

muhd (for the jocks)
mood (opp north)
mahd (for the cockneys)

shoulda woulda coulda sued the dude in the wood! D

Do any of those not rhyme to anyone - excluding "in" and "the")?

Fimbo and squeaver Achh noooooo, git yer purrrple currrly wurrly oot, thirs bin a murrrder. ...and all the other wonderful phrases my southern friends request of me.

See I would say shud and mud ... (midlands accent)

I had a look at that game. I couldn't find the mud/should question, but to throw another spanner into the works; is it just me or does short not rhyme with court?

Sure it does for some thunderduck, just not all of us (not me - short has and awww sound and court an 'o')

Curly - dude doesn't rhyme with wood to me.

Short does rhyme with court.

Do you have a crime-solving curly-wurly?

it's key to every investigation, trillian!

I tried this over and over and over and I CANNOT make should and mud not rhyme . And it's not like I have no idea about these things - granted I'm from Lancashire but I live in posh London and I have a cockerney partner and step children. AND I am a total accent chameleon, RP on my voicemail, leeeeeev it ahhhhht ya fackin cant at home and bluddy ell muther back in the north. The only way it doesn't rhyme is if the vowel sound for 'should' comes from the back of the mouth and the one for 'mud' comes from the front. For me, however, both sounds come out 'uh' from somewhere ahlfway to my lungs

You need new vocal chords.

Or perhaps even cords.

I'm the opposite I can't understand how ooh can sound like uh.

I'm not a Southerner either. I'm a Scot.

The only way I can get it to rhyme is saying shud which then in turn sounds nothing like shood.

i am not really offended OP,i just can't see how you are, fact is on this thread alone you can see that mud and should do rhyme-for the vast majority of us,and therefore you ARE being unreasonable.
(do you really think I am that dumb to be offended by your accent??!-honestly!)

mud and should written in IPA (international phonetic alphabet) have different vowel sounds/symbols, so therefore should (arf) not rhyme... but, on pronounciation they perhaps do for some and not others

For me, should rhymes with wood (short o vowel sound) and mud rhymes with love (luv) or brother (bruther)... but then I'm an estuary english girl

Vive la difference! accents are like opinions - we are all entitled to our own, and no one is right or wrong.

How about we embrace our wonderful diverse UK culture, but try not to confuse the children too soon? They've got enough of that coming when they reach the teenage years...