Communication 2013-08-19

rhyme: when two words have the same sound at the end - mat, cat, hat, that, sat
- smaller, taller, baller, caller
- seller, teller, cellar, Keller
- begin / win
- orange / [nothing]

slant rhyme: when two words *almost* rhyme
- orange / door hinge
- mine / men
- sing / him
- time / mine
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mine / fine
yours / doors (zoo, too, good, book)
his / quiz
hers / prefers
its / sits
ours / showers
theirs / wears
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"field" = /fild/
"held" = /hɛld/
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my, my
I, your
mine
I, your
I, your
me
me, me
I, me
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chain
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Tvvo houshold Frends alike in dignitie,
(In faire Verona, where we lay our Scene)
From ciuill broyles broke into enmitie
     civil  broils             enmity

Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny

- Shakespeare, around 1600
= Early Modern English
The King James Bible
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"Here lyeth buryed" = "Here lies buried"
(on some gravestones in old Boston cemeteries)
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WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
- Chaucer, around 1400
= Middle English
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Beowulf, around 1000AD
= Old English / Anglo Saxon
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beat      bit     bet
/bit/    /bɪt/    /bɛt/
long E  short I  short E

The "short" vowels in English are the sounds made by a, e, i, o, and u, if they are the only vowel in a word.

bat, bet, bit, bot, but

The "long" vowels sound like the name of the letters, a, e, i, o, and u. They are usually spelled with that vowel and a second one, or a silent -e at the end.

bait, beet, bite, boat, boot
mate  mete  might mote  mute

beat, bit, bet, bat, bot
Pronounce "yeah" very slowly.


boot, put, but, bought, bot
Pronounce "wah" very slowly.

beat -> bit, bait -> bet, Luke -> look
relax your mouth to change these sounds


Luke, look, luck, "lawk", lock