The Rhyming Word Game Returns!

RedFormanFITA

Flirt

Squirt

Monkeybonkers

Dirt

Hurt

Chareth Cutestory

Curt

Rude

Eeden

spewed

chucked

Monkeybonkers

Clucked

Chicken

Chareth Cutestory

Thicken

Sauce

coolhull

cause

effect

Monkeybonkers

Reject

Dismiss

coolhull

remiss

wrong

TommieBoy

long

short

Grid.

port

tunnel

coolhull

gunnel


rear

Eeden

sheer

perfection

coolhull

infection

swelling

Monkeybonkers

TommieBoy wrote: »

long

short

Grid. wrote: »

port

tunnel

They're supposed to rhyme




Yelling

Sergeant

RedFormanFITA

Pummel

Beat

Eeden

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

They're supposed to rhyme




Yelling

Sergeant

how does port not rhyme with short?

Monkeybonkers

Eeden wrote: »

how does port not rhyme with short?

Say the words aloud. Unless you have a unique way of pronouncing one or the other, they don't rhyme. Here is a definition of what a rhyme is: "identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse."

The key part here is the word 'sound'. Just because a word is spelt similarly to another word doesn't mean that it rhymes with it. I hope this helps.



Neat

Tidy

Eeden

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Say the words aloud. Unless you have a unique way of pronouncing one or the other, they don't rhyme. Here is a definition of what a rhyme is: "identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse."

The key part here is the word 'sound'. Just because a word is spelt similarly to another word doesn't mean that it rhymes with it. I hope this helps.

Sorry, but in my idiolect, they DO sound the same. We must have different ways of speaking!

Friday

Happy

coolhull

nappy


pooh

Monkeybonkers

Eeden wrote: »

Sorry, but in my idiolect, they DO sound the same. We must have different ways of speaking!

Friday

Happy

I'd say you are very much in the minority if the way you speak makes these two words rhyme but each to their own. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm all for including minorities in these games.


Goo

Glue

Eeden

Blue

True

(I'm Irish/American; but mostly Irish )

Wichita Lineman

Better be careful or the rhyming squad will be after me, I'm from a fairly boggy area so things sound very different down here...................

Yew

Lighten

Monkeybonkers

Eeden wrote: »

Blue

True

(I'm Irish/American; but mostly Irish )

Check out a character called Ivor from 'Damo and Ivor'. There are videos on You Tube. He's another whose accent might make those two words rhyme. What part of the USA are you from? I just never heard those two particular words rhymed together.

Andy Dunne11 wrote: »

Better be careful or the rhyming squad will be after me, I'm from a fairly boggy area so things sound very different down here...................

Yew

Lighten

I think you're safe enough Andy, it's more D4 than W4

Frighten

Scare

Eeden

Everyone but Monkeybonkers feel free to ignore:

Sorry if we're derailing this thread! I was brought up in Chicago, but have lived in Galway for decades (since I was a pre-teen). Also lived in California for a while as an adult. I've never heard port and short not rhyme! I just don't get it. I even went on a website (http://www.forvo.com/) and genuinely couldn't hear much difference between US, UK, Irish, Canadian, etc. (apart from the rhotic/non-rhotic thing, and even with that, they pronounced both the same).

Not trying to be confrontational, seriously. I find this stuff fascinating.

Pare

Peel

Chareth Cutestory

Off ALL the questionable rhyming pairs that have ever appeared on this thread (and there have been many) I can't believe the only one I've ever seen questioned is 'port' and 'short'

After repeating aloud in a number of different accents (each more ridiculous than the last) I still think they rhyme??! Or close enough anyway. I also think that I'm losing my mind.


Veal

Steak

coolhull

bake.....(hope that rhymes)


oven

Eeden

coven

witch

Chareth Cutestory

Pitch

Fork

coolhull

stork

babies