Atlanta, Georgia here. Yes, they rhyme.
Why is *rhyme *spelled so weirdly?
That seems quite common, particularly in the midwest. So which vowel sound do all these words generally share, would you say?
eh (that’s “merry” and “ferry” to me)
ay (for me, that’s… sorta… “Mary” and “fairy,” although those words really have a dipthong sound combining ay+schwa)
a as in “hat” (for me, that’s “marry” and “carry”)
Huh? Both pairs rhyme perfectly. How do you pronounce them such that they don’t rhyme?
ETA: British English, probably close to RP.
Both sets rhyme in New Zealand.
But would probaby sound weird to you guys anyway.
Pittsburgh. “Get” can be “git” in these parts, too, but both pairs rhyme to me.
Usually what happens in this kind of thread is that some people look at how words are spelled and they imagine that they don’t pronounce them the same because of spelling differences. For example, some people will insist that they pronounce ball and bawl differently, though in reality they don’t.
This is one situation where spelling can’t be the issue, though, so I don’t know what’s going on.
I’m currently in the Northeast US, but spent half of my childhood in Asia and Europe.
Wet and get rhyme with pet. Sing and thing rhyme with king. I’ve heard ‘thing’ pronounced ‘thang’, but always considered it a conscious affectation.
Both pairs rhyme – NJ/Philly
Huh. Born and raised here too, but I say “get” and have never heard anyone say “git” at all, ever, even a little bit. You live in the city?
For me, marry/merry/Mary all have the ay sound. I’m not from the Midwest, but I’m third generation Pacific Northwest.
As for the OP, get/wet rhymes and thing/sing rhymes.
Do you want yet another “me too”? Both of the OP’s pairs rhyme perfectly for me. I grew up in, and currently live in, central Illinois.
Ha!
As an Ontarian, I am in complete agreement with this. Yes, there are subtleties in the pronunciations, but they are evident!
There were actually a couple of girls in my Minnesotan high school who would pronounce sing as seeng. I, of course pronounce thing and sing so they rhyme. Intellectually get and wet rhyme but I’m quite sure that in casual speech, I always pronounce get as git.
Yeah, I’m part of the Mary/merry/marry merger, although I don’t seem to be consistent with how I merge them. I never use an “ay”-type vowel for any of those, but I do go somewhere from a short e to a short a (ae) sound for all those words.
Missed the edit, but now that I’m saying it to myself over and over, it seems that sometimes I do distinguish between two of the sounds, but not the third (the vowel in “Mary.”)
I would think so, which makes “Surely, those words don’t actually rhyme in anyone’s accent, do they?” surprising.
I don’t say drawer like most of you do. It sounds very close to “draw” when I say it, though I feel there’s a different emphasis on the “r” when I say draw vs drawer(likewise borrower sounds a lot like bower when I say it). But I’m aware that I don’t say it in the standard way. And drawer and borrower are heard much less often than any of the words in the OP’s pairings.
Yes they rhyme. I was raised in and around the WashMet area, mostly PG County Maryland.
I think the OP might be Larry the Cable Guy. (you tube link)
I wish you could upload audio of you saying these words, because neither of these paragraphs make any sense to me. Does the middle portion of think sound like the word hen for you?
I’m also in the Buffalo NY area. Sing and thing rhyme. Get and Wet and Merry/Marry/Mary rhyme too.
It’s a combo of ay and a.
As an Ontarian, all nine words rhyme to me.
I just realized your “a” from hat is probably not the same as mine. Around here, hat sounds sort of like “hayat” if you exaggerated the word.