Rhymes in English

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[scrimshaw]

That's interesting. But oddly enough, in the southern style, there is no stop whatsoever in that word. It just all runs together.

Dipthongs are rare in american english
auto...is not pronounced with a dipthong....it is pronounced aw-to

Interesting though, in the deep southern states, Mississipi, Alabamba, Georgia, they create dipthongs where no dipthong should be....that is called the southern drawl (lenghtening of the word)

You draw really well.
With the drawl....You drauw really well.
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Jsem zvědav, jak by to vypadalo, kdybych byl přivolávačem deště. Jak by to vypadalo, kdybych uměl přivolat déšt'?
Mám pocit ale, že se to bohužel nikdy nedozvím.

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[GlennInFlorida]

[bibax]

[scrimshaw]

I have to laugh at myself, misspelling english words......diphthong...not..dipthong

About the orange pronunciation.
I'd be curious to hear Glenn's comments about that. He's a southerner too.
English dictionary definitely breaks it into two syllables.
or..ange

I have definitely heard or..inge
and I think I sometimes say it
but....mostly to me the word is
orn..dž(ge)....
Since now I am thinking about it so much, and paying attention to it.

I notice when I slow the word down
I have to put the tip of the tongue to the top of the mouth well behind the teeth to get the final N sound, but when I add the G sound at the end and put it all together,
the tongue does not have to touch the top of the mouth to get the N sound. Maybe it does, for a millisecond, but it all just runs together.

It's like beginning the word with ORE, as in iron ore, no break at all between the O and the R

That's my little corner of the world.....not international pronunciation

And yea, I guess I didn't fully understand the meaning of diphthong.

Never to old to learn.
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Jsem zvědav, jak by to vypadalo, kdybych byl přivolávačem deště. Jak by to vypadalo, kdybych uměl přivolat déšt'?
Mám pocit ale, že se to bohužel nikdy nedozvím.

[cestina]

I've been sitting here for the past ten minutes, as a British English speaker, who generally uses received pronunciation, trying to produce a one-syllabled "orange" and I simply can't do it.

To me the word splits up into o-ringe and can never in a month of Sundays rhyme with finch.....

[scrimshaw]

If I do break it into syllables it is ORN...ge

To me the ge sound is like an afterthought, much less empahsized.

If the second syllable was emphasized then we could make it ryhme.

There once was an o-ringe
t'was top stony stone henge

I long to behold,
a beautiful o-ringe
so bright, so bold
'pon my heart, t'will impinge

Ok,ok, so I'm not a poet
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Jsem zvědav, jak by to vypadalo, kdybych byl přivolávačem deště. Jak by to vypadalo, kdybych uměl přivolat déšt'?
Mám pocit ale, že se to bohužel nikdy nedozvím.

[bibax]

According to dictionary.cambridge.org and dictionary.reference.com

orange rhymes with impinge.

aw-rinj .......... im-pinj

The only difference is the stress.

[GlennInFlorida]

well, like scrimshaw said, orange is a one syllable word to me with a bit of an afterthought for the ge (ORNj - the j sort of like the English j in just) and the plural is ORNjez
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