# Yemen Hemen Semen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416 "2011-07-09T15:26:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/1 "2011-07-09T15:26:06Z")
What are some others? Notice they don’t rhyme – at least not to my ear. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/2 "2011-07-09T15:44:07Z")
Comb Tomb laughter daughter home some I was going to try and do all these from memory, [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDFQXxWIyvQ#t=4m14s) does a much better job. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/3 "2011-07-09T19:01:57Z")
Tough Trough Through Though Lead Lead ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/4 "2011-07-09T19:20:08Z")
A ton exist. Food and Good, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/5 "2011-07-09T19:32:42Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Food and Good, for example. Check out my youtube link, it’s the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/6 "2011-07-09T19:38:59Z")
unionized unionized coax coax ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/7 "2011-07-09T20:47:35Z")
It’s great how the posts have branched out. I was simply wondering if another word ending in “-emen” had an even more divergent pronunciation from those three. But in the spirit of how this is going: Beeman (chewing gum) Cement Demon Eamon (de Velara) Feminine G-Men Hemen (one of the three in the OP) I’m an old cowhand Jiminy Keyman (no idea) Lemon Meeman (there’s a Meeman-Shelby Park in Memphis or close by there) Neiman (Leroy or Marcus) you finish the list if you like… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/8 "2011-07-09T22:21:01Z")
the **Tough Cough** as they **Plough Through Dough**. 5 words which ought to rhyme, but the “ough” portion is pronounced differently in each. Uff, off, ow, ooh, oh I can see why people have trouble learning english. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/9 "2011-07-10T03:05:26Z")
If the plural of mouse is mice, and the plural of louse is lice, what is the plural of house? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/10 "2011-07-10T03:38:16Z")
I guess everybody knows what GHOTI spells, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/11 "2011-07-11T03:23:18Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I guess everybody knows what GHOTI spells, right? I’ll have to ask Ernie, my pet know-it-all gold-ghoti :). (whoops, Ernie’s gone belly up in his bowl!) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/12 "2011-07-11T03:37:42Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > unionized > unionized > > coax > coax moped moped “moped” and “coax” are interesting in that they are different words, with different etymologies, pronounced differently, that are different parts of speech. (Although isn’t it really “co-ax”?) I wonder how many other such pairs there are. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yemen-hemen-semen/588416/13 "2011-07-11T03:56:38Z")
Here is a [poem](http://www.jokes2go.com/poems/7237.html) about pronunciation.