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You’re saying “takesies” does not rhyme with “backsies”? As a counterexample, what would be a word that would rhyme with one but not the other?
by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
You’re saying “takesies” does not rhyme with “backsies”? As a counterexample, what would be a word that would rhyme with one but not the other?
- cool_dude85 5y agoFakesies to rhyme with takesies and cracksies to rhyme with backsies. Is there a dialect of English commonly spoken where "fake" and "back" rhyme?
- jcranmer 5y agoWould the Northern Cities Vowel Shift do it?
- jordanekay 5y agoNo.
- spatley 5y agoAre you intending to say that there is a transitive property of rhyming? And that if that if A does not rhyme with B then there may not exist a word C that rhymes with both A and B? If so, your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
- schoen 5y agoI think the issue is that English rhyme requires a near-match of the last stressed vowel and of all following sounds until the end of the word. So you can sometimes just match the last syllable and get a rhyme, but not always, depending on where the stress falls. For example, "example" rhymes with "sample" but not with "people" because the stress is on the second-to-last syllable. But "redact" and "exact" rhyme, despite only agreeing in the last syllable, because that's the last syllable that's stressed. "Takesies" and "backsies" are both stressed on their first syllables, so they would need to match from that vowel on in order to be perceived as a natural English rhyme, and they don't.
- oblio 5y agoDoesn't "backsies" rhyme with "taxis"?