# "Photography" and "Biography" - Not rhymes, but what?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-and-biography-not-rhymes-but-what/726298>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 27, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-and-biography-not-rhymes-but-what/726298 "2015-07-27T05:35:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-and-biography-not-rhymes-but-what/726298/21 "2015-07-28T15:13:36Z")

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> [@ratatoskK](#):
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> One of the definitions of [end ryhme](http://www.yourdictionary.com/end-rhyme)

See, I would just call that a “rhyme.” It’s an “end” rhyme as opposed to what? Or is “end-rhyme” a [retronym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym)?

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-and-biography-not-rhymes-but-what/726298/22 "2015-07-28T15:46:02Z")

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> [@Cartoonacy](#):
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> For “photography” and “biography,” the stressed _vowel_ is “o,” so it’s “ography,” not “graphy” or “tography.”

But in English, vowels are not stressed, syllables are. The syllables are

pho-TO-gra-phy

and

bi-O-gra-phy

Maybe that was the point you were trying to make–that the vowel _belonging to_ the stressed syllables is the same.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-and-biography-not-rhymes-but-what/726298/23 "2015-07-28T16:50:49Z")

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> [@Cartoonacy](#):
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> See, I would just call that a “rhyme.” It’s an “end” rhyme as opposed to what?

Internal rhyme. “Flying too high with some guy in the sky/is my idea of nothing to do/But I get a kick out of you.”

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