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Thread #35198   Message #479105
Posted By: Helen
08-Jun-01 - 08:01 AM
Thread Name: words that rhyme with banana.
Subject: RE: words that rhyme with banana.
In Oz any word ending in "..anner" would rhyme, e.g. spanner, banner, if you pronounced banana as "bananna", but most oz-folk don't pronounce it that way, anyway, so it is a moot point.

The point, by the way, being that we don't tend to pronounce the "r" in "spanner" etc, but pronounce it as if it were spelled "spanna". Years (& years) ago (I'm showing my age) there was an ad on tv and the jingle went "Oh, you canna hand a man a grander spanner"

A likely rhyme in Oz for "banana", then would be "Torana", a well-known Holden car.

How about "Hard hearted Hannah, the girl from Savannah"?

Helen