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rcurl
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What Rhymes with Dog?
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Oct 13 19:26 UTC 1997 |
I have heard that there is no English word that rhymes with orange, and
wondered vaguely if there are other unrhymable words. Not long ago we ate
at Big Boy, and our daughter requested the kid's place mat with puzzles.
The first one was "How many words do you know that rhyme with dog?", and
they gave spaces for a dozen. However, we could not think of any! No, fog,
bog, log and cog do not rhyme with dog. So, does any word? Consider this
item also a search for other words that have no rhyming partners, but
let's start with dog.
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e4808mc
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response 1 of 32:
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Oct 13 19:35 UTC 1997 |
Well, slight changes in vowel sounds *might* make bog, cog, and fog not rhyme
with dog, but even accepting that, log and dog rhyme. What are you using as
a criterion for not rhyming?
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rcurl
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response 2 of 32:
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Oct 13 21:05 UTC 1997 |
log is lahg and dog is dawg. They are quite different - at least in the
English I speak! Do you say log as lawg, or dog as dahg? Do you eat a
hot-dahg, or a hot-dawg?
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davel
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response 3 of 32:
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Oct 14 00:46 UTC 1997 |
I'm afraid I say lawg and bawg, myself. Never noticed others doing otherwise.
I have heard fahg, but say fawg mostly.
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rcurl
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response 4 of 32:
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Oct 14 20:56 UTC 1997 |
Really? Try saying "The frog sat on the log in the fog.", and have someone
tell you if all your 'ogs rhyme, or not. Then try it with "The dog sat
on the log in the fog." Let us know the result. :)
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davel
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response 5 of 32:
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Oct 15 00:33 UTC 1997 |
Grace listened to me & says they all rhyme. Where did you learn to talk,
Rane? I've heard "bog" & "cog" & "fog" as "ah", but I say "bawg" and
"fawg". I think "cog" comes out somewhere in between. I don't think
I've ever heard "frahg".
"oo" words are good ones for variations. I pronounce "roof" & "root", say,
with essentially the same vowel sound - more or less that in "put". I
have known people who do them both with the vowel sound of "moon", or
maybe not quite so broad as that but close - and people who pronounce one
of these one way and one the other. (For that matter, in the Chicago
suburb I mostly grew up in, I knew lots of kids who pronounced "hood"
with the vowel of "hoot" in the meaning of a tough guy but not the
car part. (They also used an adjective form, "hoody", as in "he's a
hoody kid", which to this day strikes my ear as just plain bizarre.))
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rcurl
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response 6 of 32:
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Oct 15 05:05 UTC 1997 |
I learned to talk in New York City, for what that's worth. What I find amazing
here is that apparently we have different regional dialects, but I've never
noticed this difference. It must have made sense to ask what rhymes with
"dog", for the midwesterner that wrote that puzzle mat.
I say "frahg".
The dictionary (Webster's New World) gives:
do^g, da"g - where o^ = -aw and a" = -ah - which covers both choices. Also
the same for log, bog, fog, and frog. It does not, however, assign these
to regions
The neat thing here is that there are so many possible combinations -
practically a key to dialects. Apparently the only -og word that I pronounce
do^g (dawg) is dog, and all the other -ogs are a"gs. How did that happen?
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albaugh
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response 7 of 32:
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Oct 15 20:05 UTC 1997 |
It happened obviously because you learned to talk in NYC! No one here in the
midwest says long-uh Island e.g. :-)
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davel
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response 8 of 32:
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Oct 15 20:58 UTC 1997 |
I definitely associate "lahg" and "bahg" and "fahg" with Boston; people I know
from there definitely do that, now that I think about it. Also saying "aunt"
as "awnt". (To me it rhymes with "ant". The influence on my accent on *that*
one is more likely Texas than midwest - my relatives all come from Texas, &
I have lots of aunts. But I never noticed anyone saying otherwise except
easterners, mostly a couple of Bostonians.)
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kentn
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response 9 of 32:
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Oct 16 01:51 UTC 1997 |
Don't forget creek and crick...etc. Interesting discussion...
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albaugh
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response 10 of 32:
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Oct 17 06:35 UTC 1997 |
I thawt that down in Texas you would say aunt "AY-int" :-)
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rcurl
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response 11 of 32:
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Oct 17 06:59 UTC 1997 |
My accent is not New YOrk. My parents were MI and rural NJ, but definitely
eastern. I say aunt as "ant", but don't say "long-uh island". My wife,
also from New York with a *little* New York accent (now much attenuated)
also can't make dog rhyme with the other -ogs. Our daughter, born here,
is the same way. So it must be Texas. Is Big Boy based in Texas, then?
(By the way, I asked the waitresses if they knew any words that rhymed with
dog (sawg), and they said fog, log, etc., *but* did not pronounce them the
same as they did dog!
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orinoco
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response 12 of 32:
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Nov 2 03:12 UTC 1997 |
I definitely say frahg and lahg rather than frawg and lawg. I do say dawg
though.
I say Balrawg, does that count? :)
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rcurl
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response 13 of 32:
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Nov 2 04:56 UTC 1997 |
What's a Balrawg? Do you use any other word that rhymes with dog (dawg)?
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davel
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response 14 of 32:
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Nov 3 02:28 UTC 1997 |
A balrog is a creature in Tolkien's writings. I also pronounce it to rhyme
with dog (& frog, log, & fog). That's not much evidence of anything except
my own reflexes, I think - I definitely saw it & mentally pronounced it many
times before ever hearing anyone else say it.
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srw
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response 15 of 32:
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Nov 5 22:26 UTC 1997 |
I am with Rane on all pronunciations. I am from New york too, though.
However, i definitely do not think this is a NY thing. Isn't there
someone from outside NY who agrees?
I have trouble understanding how log or bog could possibly rhyme with
dog, although they rhyme just fine with each other. In fact, I cannot
rhyme anything with dog.
The folks in New England have a whole collection of vowel shifts that
you don't want to get into here.
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rcurl
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response 16 of 32:
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Nov 6 06:19 UTC 1997 |
I think we have to corner davel and see if he *really* lays lawg, bawg
and fawg... :)
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davel
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response 17 of 32:
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Nov 6 12:52 UTC 1997 |
I *said* that on "bog" I'm ambivalent (but I say "bawgged down"). The others,
yes.
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orinoco
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response 18 of 32:
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Nov 8 04:33 UTC 1997 |
Yeah, but that's a fixed phrase and not a real use of the word.
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davel
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response 19 of 32:
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Nov 8 14:38 UTC 1997 |
eh? It's the *only* way I normally use the word. I normally say "swamp" or
perhaps "marsh".
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gelinas
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response 20 of 32:
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Oct 13 21:47 UTC 2001 |
So I'm a johnny-come-lately. I think fog/log/dog rhyme. Probably bog and
cog, too. Sometimes, anyway.
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rcurl
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response 21 of 32:
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Oct 13 21:54 UTC 2001 |
You say dahg, not dawg? Are you sure? (Or do you say fawg, lawg and dawg?)
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gelinas
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response 22 of 32:
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Oct 13 22:13 UTC 2001 |
I'm fairly certain I use the latter pronunciations: /fawg/ /lawg/ and /dawg/.
And /bawg/ but /cahg/.
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rcurl
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response 23 of 32:
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Oct 13 22:43 UTC 2001 |
Probably regional. Where did you acquire your dialect?
So, you say "lawg into Grex"? I've never heard anyone use that
pronounciation.
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gelinas
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response 24 of 32:
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Oct 13 23:03 UTC 2001 |
Pretty much.
I grew up in Illinois, Georgia and Michigan (chronologically, but Michigan,
Illinois and Georgia in order of time-spent). Mother was raised just
outside Atlanta, Father grew up on the Massachusetts/Rhode Island line.
Friends were from all over, never in one place for much longer than I was.
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