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.

[MrsBadger]

ah now the smartest giant in town rhymes scarf with giraffe

does that fail too?

[Cappuccino]

my Irish friend once sent me a rhyme

You work all day
for the sugar in your tea

[hatwoman]

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

[nickytwotimes]

Is that not assonance? (sp?)

[SirDigbyChickenCaesar]

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

[cupsoftea]

rhymes if you say the second word lightly

[cupsoftea]

like the irish poem

[SirDigbyChickenCaesar]

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

[beansmum]

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

[lulu25]

where does scarf not rhyme with giraffe?

[Twiglett]

roar and paw do rhyme

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

[CountessDracula]

err

how do you pronounce laugh then? and scarf?

[Uriel]

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

[CountessDracula]

I guess some people would think garage and marriage rhyme

I wouldn't!

[Uriel]

That would be laff, cd.

[Twiglett]

laugh is short 'a' sound

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

[lulu25]

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

[cupsoftea]

larfff and skarfff

[lulu25]

oh i see

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

[CountessDracula]

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

[SirDigbyChickenCaesar]

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.

[CountessDracula]

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

[cupsoftea]

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

[Twiglett]

pow as in ow?

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