Both pairs rhyme for me. I’m from the Pacific Northwest. I’m also really curious how you’re pronouncing ‘sing’ and ‘thing’ so that they don’t rhyme!
I’ve read Hop on Pop many, many times in the last seven years. I’ve never had a problem with any of the words not rhyming. I can’t imagine “sing” and “thing” not rhyming, and I hope the OP comes back to explain how she says them differently.
Oh, good lord.
I pronounce “get” with a short i sound - “git.” “Wet” has a more standard short e.
“Thing” is more like “thang” - in fact, this is one of those words that took me forever to learn to spell, because I could never remember which vowel went in there. “Sing” has I guess a long e vowel sound. I can’t even try to make them rhyme without it sounding weird. I’m going to go ask people to read that page for me.
My accent is primarily Midwestern (St. Louis) with a dash of rural Kentucky, but perhaps this is my own idiosyncrasy.
I imagine they rhyme everywhere but in Maryland, where the OP appears to be from.
I can’t access Youtube, but it seems to me I watched a guy replacing a water pump on a Jeep Grand Cherokee once and I think he was from Maryland. Quite an accent to my ear.
ETA: BetsQ is apparently not from Maryland after all.
Both sets rhyme to me. I’m originally from Iowa.
Maybe BetsQ is from a deep South enclave where thing and sing don’t rhyme in dialect. But she’s gotta know that for most English-speakers that’s an obvious rhyme.
We have to be precise about this stuff.
The tune don’t have to be clever,
And it don’t matter if you put a coupla extra syllables into a line.
It sounds more ethnic if it ain’t good english,
And it don’t even gotta rhyme–excuse me–rhyne.
- Tom Lehrer
I’m in Maryland now - it’s not local to here, either.
So BetsQ: I can imagine the “thang”-ish pronunciation, but I’m not sure what you mean by “sing” having a “long e vowel sound”. Is it kind of like “seen” with a “ng” on the end?
I’m in Buffalo, NY - born and raised here. I tend to pronounce “get” more like “git.”
But “thing” and “sing” definitely rhyme when I say them.
I’ve definitely heard “thing” pronounced “thang” in the South, but the same speakers would, I think, also pronounce “sing” as “sang.”
thing and sing don’t rhyme. sing rhymes with ring
wet and get don’t rhyme
I’m from Maryland, and they rhyme for me. There’s definitely a Maryland accent (see any of the threads on The Wire for reference), but it’s more pronounced with long o sounds than “-ing” or “-et.”
…in your dialect. They do in mine.
In your dialect, what does ‘thing’ rhyme with?
“Orange.”
Grew up in Texas, have lived in greater Los Angeles for over 15 years.
Thing and sing rhyme to me. (Both rhyme with ring and bling.)
Get and wet also rhyme when I say them. (Both rhyme with pet, net, and set.)
I’m just curious, OP, when you hear radio or television news announcers, or even T.V. or movie characters, pronouncing the word “thing” or “get”, how do they sound to you? Are you aware that your pronunciation is an unusual one?
I am in Maryland now, but there are so many transplants in the DC area (at least in my social circles) that it would be hard for me to identify a particular Maryland accent.
And yes, “sing” and “seen” have the same vowel sound to me.
PSXer, I’m so glad I’m not the only one!
According to this documentary about St. Louis, “swing” and “thing” rhyme, but they do not rhyme with the way I pronounce “swing” (or “sing”) and “thing.”
I think the OP is pronouncing “sing” wrong! 
It should be “thaaaang” and “saaaaang”
Honestly, I don’t tend to notice stuff like that. Hence, my question.
And ring rhymes with thing…
I mean…I know some people have accents/pronounciations that aren’t the same, but you must know that pronouncing “thing” as “thang” is very regional, and that most people don’t pronounce it that way? I mean…surely you’ve heard people in movies/TV pronounce it as “thing.” Or is it one of those things (thangs?) where you sort of hear what you want to hear?
Reminds me of my sister complaining about her students. Many of them will say,
"You, can I axe (aks?) you something?
And she’ll say
“No, but you can ask me something.”
They’ll go,
“That’s what I said…axe!”
She’ll go around and around with them, saying they need to pronounce it as “ask,” but they don’t get it, because they are so conditioned to “axe,” that to them, “ask” IS “axe.”
Either that, or they are being BLINDINGLY obtuse, even for 12 year olds (and many of them are good students, very intelligent, etc…so it’s not like they’re doing it on purpose to be a smart-ass.)
Thing = sing.
Generic upper midwest. Mary=marry=merry, too.