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It's really just a feat of data collection (e.g. rhymezone.com). You just compile all English words and record which ones rhyme with which. (Yeah it's labor-in
by wavemode 2y ago
It's really just a feat of data collection (e.g. rhymezone.com). You just compile all English words and record which ones rhyme with which.
(Yeah it's labor-intensive, but probably not moreso than, say, writing a dictionary.)
- williamdclt 2y ago> You just compile all English words and record which ones rhyme with which I suppose, if we ignore accents and heteronyms... both of which English is famous for, unfortunately!
- nyrikki 2y agoShakespeare in RP loses most of the raunchy jokes as an example of the above. My highschool English teacher was horrified when she figured out why us boys were laughing when reading her copy of the first folio, our hick accent ment we were getting some of the jokes she didn't even notice. Theme rhyming with sixteen in the Cranberry's song Zombie is another.
- rhdunn 2y agoThere was an effort to revive the Shakespearean pronunciation by David Crystal. You can see YouTube videos of David and his son Ben talking about it and reciting parts of Shakespeare to highlight the jokes and word play.
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