These words do not rhyme and I object to them pretending to.

[SirDigbyChickenCaesar]

Laugh and Scarf
Roar and Paw

every flipping night i read stories to DS that contain these words and get mightily pissed off.

yes, I know there are difference dialects and accents and people pronounce words differently but FGS if you are going to write a rhyming poem or story you have to realize that not everyone speaks like you.

ah now the smartest giant in town rhymes scarf with giraffe

does that fail too?

my Irish friend once sent me a rhyme

You work all day
for the sugar in your tea

the smartest giant in town can be forgiven. in fact it makes me think you can have a good rhyming book with a couple of stretching-a-point rhymes - and they just make you smile. but a shite one is shite. and there are more of the latter than the former

Is that not assonance? (sp?)

scarf and giraffe do not rhyme.
not in my mouth anyway. see there's an R in scarf that in not there in Giraffe.

rhymes if you say the second word lightly

like the irish poem

everytime i read the one story (with the offending scarf/laugh combo) i think of MNers posting larf. but it still isn't right!

they rhyme when I say them, and I can't work out another, non-rhyming, way.

where does scarf not rhyme with giraffe?

roar and paw do rhyme

laugh and scarf don't .. but down here do

err

how do you pronounce laugh then? and scarf?

How is it not possible to get roar and paw to rhyme?

I guess some people would think garage and marriage rhyme

I wouldn't!

That would be laff, cd.

laugh is short 'a' sound

I don't get how roar and paw don't rhyme either tbh

i think i might have spent too much time with a small child, but i get the roar and paw one because i can no longer say roar without actually roaring

larfff and skarfff

oh i see

do you say "bath" to rhyme with "maths" as well?

laff?

my mother irritates me by saying Graff instead of Graph

She is australian though but has lived here since the late 50s so should have integrated better by now imo

again it's the R thing isn't it. there's no R in paw.

laugh = Laff (see no R)
scarf = scaRf

oh bloody hell. forget it. you all talk funny. i'll go back to my own country.

you'll probably find someone somewhere pronouces paw "pow"

lulu - bath & maths don't rhyme for me but could in northern accent - bath & math

pow as in ow?

no I don't get any pronunciation of paw that isn't pore stylee