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Is rhyming of two words a transitive property?
Let's suppose A rhymes with B and B rhymes with C. Does A always rhyme with C?
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Is there a name for words following this pattern?
Word pairs like bizarre and bazaar, although spelled differently sound very similar. It also seems like they are more than just a pair of rhyming words.
Is there a classification within rhyming ...
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Does a word rhyme with itself?
In other words, does rhyming work reflexively?
Do "potato" and "potato" rhyme?
Is the following (admittedly cumbersome) limerick valid?
An issue with rhymes confused me much So I used the ...
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What is it about English that makes it favourable for writing limericks?
I was reading some limericks and I thought about composing them, and I find it very easy to come up with lines that fit the metre.
Is there something about the English language that makes it easy to ...
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Older pronunciations of the “-ity” suffix [closed]
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Rhyming conventions of Early Modern English
Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress from the mid-1600's follows an AABBCCDD[...] rhyming pattern. Therefore, it is ...
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Does Old Mother Hubbard rhyme?
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there, the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
It's always bothered me that "bone" doesn't rhyme ...
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Meaning of the counting rhyme “Eenie Meenie Miney Moe”
Counting rhymes are as we know, used for determining who is it.So last week, we were playing chili-chili-water, and my friend told me that the counting rhynme "Eenie Meenie Miney Moe" actually had a ...
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In what dialects does “often” rhyme with “soften”?
I believe in most English dialects soften is pronounced without a t sound. In some dialects, often is similar, but in others a t sound is quite evident in often.
I'm interested not only in which ...
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Is it true that iambic pentameter is “natural” to English? If so, why?
When I first read Dante's Divine Comedy in high school, I remember once being puzzled at what I thought were strained rhymes in the translation, and mentioned it to my English teacher. In reply, she ...
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What is a word for words that rhyme or sound similar?
You may say "node rhymes with toad", or "the words load and toad rhyme", but what about the relation of rhyming?
The relation between "node" and "load" is purely ____ - they just sound similar.
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Online rhyme dictionary/rhyming resource that lists rhymes by vowel sound (assonance)
Anyone know of an online rhyming dictionary or rhyme resource that lists rhymes by vowel sound (assonance)? RhymeZone.com doesn't have such an option.
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What word is complimentary, but sounds like “chunky”?
For a discussion I'm having with a colleague, we're trying to think of complimentary words that sound ugly.
Any that rhyme with chunky (or anything else for that matter).
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Rhyming conventions of Early Modern English
I was reading the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell when something struck me as odd. Let me quote two passages:
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
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Why does “orange” rhyme with (almost) nothing in English?
Joel Spolsky asked what rhymes with orange. The official answer is, "Nothing," although a creative poet can get close by using half words, just the -nge part or resorting to place names and foreign ...
