# Do the words "song" and "long" rhyme? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-words-song-and-long-rhyme/691624 "2014-06-25T17:14:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-words-song-and-long-rhyme/691624/8 "2014-06-25T17:40:52Z")
For me, and for most English speakers, all four of those words rhyme, but there are some accents where one or more of them are differentiated. For instance: > [@Teaching phonics in regions with drawls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-phonics-in-regions-with-drawls/612655/10): > > I once knew someone who was a teacher on Long Island. She had a somewhat Midwesternized accent, but many of her coworkers had strong LI accents. She was preparing a lesson one day about rhyming words, and was writing pairs of words on a poster: cat/hat, mouse/house, dog/log, and so on. Another teacher looked at the poster and said, confused, “Doawg and laahg?! Those don’t rhyme!” I’m also curious to know about **suranyi’s** accent, and **Alessan’s**. My guesses: **suranyi** says “song” and “gong” with a more front, unrounded vowel, closer to “ah”, and “long” and “wrong” with a more back, rounded vowel, closer to “aw”. For **Alessan’s** , I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the three rhyming words are all somewhere between “ah” and “aw”, while “gong” is actually more of an “oh” sound, like “bone”. Did I win anything? Also, apparently this kind of thing comes up a lot with “[Hop on Pop](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=641931)”! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-words-song-and-long-rhyme/691624)._