Jennifer wrote:
> Are you suggesting that discover and hover don't
> currently rhyme?
I've now done a lot of looking up on this one, and it's curious: I've
discovered another of those words that are pronounced differently on
either side of the pond, like tomatoes (you say tomaydoes and I say
pyjamas, let's call the whole thing where was I?)
I can remember hearing route pronounced to rhyme with "shout" though we
would say it the same as "root" - I don't know if that's common
throughout the US; also "lever" which I heard sounding almost like
"leather" though the British version sounds like "leever". Now I have
discovered that you say hover to rhyme (almost: ignore the middle
consonant sound) with "mother", while we in England rhyme it with
"bother". Also I haven't yet found any _other_ English words that rhyme
with it, though my Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is still in a box in the
shed waiting for us to move house. But then there's not much that rhymes
with "bother" either*... pother (an old form of bother), Fother- and
Rother- which are roots of a few British proper nouns,,,
Just a thought.
*this is starting to sound too much like the poem at the end of
A.A.Milne's "The House at Pooh Corner", qv.
cheers,
Linda
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