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18 Apr 12 - 03:52 AM (#3339882) Subject: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion Eye-rhymes ~~ words spelt the same, apart from initial letters, but pronounced differently: e.g. the 'though through tough bough' family. With some longer ones, some elaborate little verses offering a puzzle as to how best to recite them come to mind: like A tennis player, single or double, Could find himself or herself in trouble In trying to play a shot from the baseline - Only to find that some villain had smeared it with Vaseline! As 'baseline' comes first, I suppose the initial instinct would be to pronounce the product "vayce-line"; but the more perverse, having read it thru, might be inclined to pronounce the back of the court as the "bassa-leen". See what I mean? A little game could be to provide even more elaborate examples/possibilities - with original verses provided. Any takers? ~Michael~ |
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18 Apr 12 - 07:52 AM (#3339939) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza An arty but quite batty fairy. Haunted the Tate Gallery. She wore gloves and a green cope, Her name it was Penelope. Is this the sort of thing you mean Michael? |
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18 Apr 12 - 08:11 AM (#3339949) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza As my effort seemed to be turning into a Limerick, perhaps the last line could be:- 'She earned a six-figure salary.' |
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18 Apr 12 - 09:32 AM (#3339968) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion Thanks, Eliza. 'Cope' & 'Penelope' are right as they are full eye-rhymes. But 'fairy', 'gallery', and salary' aren't, as their letters are not identical apart from the beginning. Now, if the fairy had been called Mary, who earned a salary, but was sort by the constabulary... ~M~ |
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18 Apr 12 - 01:39 PM (#3339973) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion SOUGHT dashit |
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18 Apr 12 - 01:46 PM (#3339978) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: TheSnail Is there a doctor to be found To stop the blood and heal the wound and raise this dead man from the ground? |
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18 Apr 12 - 01:48 PM (#3339979) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza Ah! I get it now Michael! Will cudgel my brains this evening. |
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18 Apr 12 - 01:57 PM (#3339982) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza The robin upon the bough Developed a terrible cough. Life up there was tough And he'd had enough, He twittered, "I guess I am through!" |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:07 PM (#3339989) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion Bravough! |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:10 PM (#3339993) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion ... let's get it set to music by the Boys of the Lough! Just a thought. We have to be thorough... |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:13 PM (#3339996) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza LOL Michael. This is giving my husband some lovely peace and quiet while I concentrate on eye-rhymes. But I must go now and cook the dinner. (pork chops and apple sauce) |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:14 PM (#3339997) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion When Bonaparte on St Helena was enisled It was because the French people he had misled |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:18 PM (#3340000) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion ... enjoy, Eliza: which brings us to the opposite ~~ the non-eye rhyme as in What with pork chops - why, apple-sauce Of cauce... ❤M❤ |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:40 PM (#3340019) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza And I'm as hungry as a hauce! |
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18 Apr 12 - 04:04 PM (#3340059) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Paul Burke When I lived in Srebrenice My house was infested by mice. I tried using arsenic As recommended by Karadzic, But the neighbours called the police. |
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18 Apr 12 - 08:45 PM (#3340178) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Mrr I know there is a limerick I am not thinking of... |
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21 Apr 12 - 09:42 AM (#3341270) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Paul Burke There was a young lady called Zoe Who paddled her own canoe. One day on the Ouse She lost her best blouse But recovered it using a hoe. |
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21 Apr 12 - 02:04 PM (#3341372) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza Excellent Paul! |
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21 Apr 12 - 05:02 PM (#3341425) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: ChanteyLass My dear host Got quite lost In the frost Near the post office. |
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22 Apr 12 - 02:53 AM (#3341546) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Paul Burke Yankee Doodle went to town Entirely on his own. He stuck a feather in his hat Improving his appearance somewhat. |
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22 Apr 12 - 07:02 AM (#3341588) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Mr Happy The audience booed As she danced in the nude Wearing only a snood And then what ensued Was they threw bits of food Some of which had been chewed And the rest had been stewed All around her was strewed It was clear that she rued Her performance so lewd That the onlookers viewed It unshrewd, crude and rude! |
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22 Apr 12 - 07:19 AM (#3341593) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Mr Happy Oh, I erred, they're not eye-rhymes |
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22 Apr 12 - 10:37 AM (#3341666) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion I think the limerick ref'd above may be ~~ There was a young fellow of St Bartholomew's Whose car went by fits and by St Startholomew's Till a fellow name St John Had a look at the 't John And fitted it out with spare St Partholomew's ~~ not exactly eye-rhymes ~ not sure how one would describe them: but will fit OK here, I think. ~M~ Merciful note to any Martians or whoever unfamiliar with the facts that St Bartholmew's Hospital in London is always referred to by the students of its distinguished medical school as 'Barts'; and that the surname St John is conventionally pronounced 'Sinj·n'. |
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22 Apr 12 - 10:51 AM (#3341671) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Paul Burke That's related to the curate: There was a young curate of Salisbury Whose behaviour was quite halisbury-scalisbury; He ran about Hampshire Without any pampshire Till his vicar compelled him to walisbury. |
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22 Apr 12 - 10:54 AM (#3341673) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Bill D Eye-rhymes are much harder to find than words spelled differently but pronounced the same. Off to think.... |
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22 Apr 12 - 11:02 AM (#3341677) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion And one might adduce here the poem called 'A Gallop Of False Analogies' which appeared many years ago in Punch by IIRC one St Leger [which here is often pronounced Sellenger ~ as in the well-known old tune Sellenger's Round to which Shirley Collins sings The Fair Maid of Islington], which is based on Sir Izaac Walton's naming of a fish as 'the Chavender, or Chub', which begins There is a fine stuffed chavender A chavender or chub Which decks the rural pavender The pavender or pub In which I eat my gravender My gravender or grub ... and there is a bit later on about From sheets as fresh as lavender As lavender or lub I leap into my tavender My tavender or tub Ah, Sancta Simplicitas |
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22 Apr 12 - 11:44 AM (#3341700) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,grumpy There was a fellow of uncommon height Who once put on too much weight. It particularly affected all his loves Though never stopped him on his roves Around the land the land both far and near Accompanied by his faithful bear. |
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22 Apr 12 - 01:01 PM (#3341737) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza Have copied all these down to send to my sister, she'll love them! |
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22 Apr 12 - 02:53 PM (#3341775) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Bainbo That scary film The Omen Starred Gregory Peck, who's attractive to women. Not exactly the same, but... The notable doctor was not able to perform the operation because there was no table. |
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22 Apr 12 - 03:09 PM (#3341781) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Bill D I once glanced into an internet 'news group' where Japanese folks were trying to learn English, and MUCH time was spent trying to explain these spellings and pronunciations. (They, of course, had no problem with different inflections denoting different thoughts) |
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22 Apr 12 - 03:41 PM (#3341796) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: John MacKenzie It must be tough When you have a cough And you knead your dough Neath an elder bough On which perches a chough Who has had enough And is feelin rough 'Cause he lives in Slough |
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22 Apr 12 - 04:44 PM (#3341824) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion Just read that through again, please ~~ thoroughly. |
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22 Apr 12 - 06:00 PM (#3341865) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Paul Burke More potatoes Than tomatoes Are grown in Killaloe But rather sadly there's only one Killaloe. |
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22 Apr 12 - 06:31 PM (#3341880) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Paul Burke I give you my word As a Knight of the Table That I'll not draw my sword Against a vegetable. |
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23 Apr 12 - 04:39 AM (#3342013) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Mr Happy As she lay on the couch She felt his touch Ouch! She cried As she turned on her side Saying 'It's far less banal, Up my anal canal'! |
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23 Apr 12 - 07:52 AM (#3342045) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Doug Chadwick That canine of note The coyote Makes much ado Of hunting in Colorado But it's weird How he never catches the bird |
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24 Apr 12 - 04:21 AM (#3342434) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Mr Happy Enjoy, my dove My glove of love It's every move In your treasure trove |
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24 Apr 12 - 05:28 AM (#3342444) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Eliza LOL Mr Happy, very erotic! (But what is a 'glove of love'? A condom perhaps?) |
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24 Apr 12 - 05:37 AM (#3342445) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion Oh, no, Eliza. Surely it is another locution for the sheath of love. Look up the Latin for 'sheath': clue; it begins with v... ~xMx~ |
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24 Apr 12 - 12:05 PM (#3342600) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Mr Happy I used to play guitar with thumb But it would rapidly go numb So I changed to a plectrumb And now I strumb With great aplumb |
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24 Apr 12 - 01:09 PM (#3342624) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: GUEST,Paul Burke Out walking in Krakow I passed an open window, And saw a young maid As she took off her plaid, Which gave me pleasure enow. |
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24 Apr 12 - 04:54 PM (#3342758) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Paul Burke There was a young student of Caius Who said to his friend "If you plaius, The next time you're dagdalen Over near Magdalen, Could you fetch me a packet of paius?" |
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24 Apr 12 - 05:26 PM (#3342784) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion A Magdalene don of divinity Had a daughter who kept her virginity. The fellows at Magdalene Must have been dagdalene - 'Twould never have happened at Trinity. Christ's man myself... an unlimerickable college, I fear: furthest I ever got was "Who was haunted by poltergeists"; but the 2nd rhyme has constantly eluded me for 60 years. & all splendidly irrelevant to the thread! |
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24 Apr 12 - 05:29 PM (#3342785) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: MGM·Lion BTW Paul - note that the Cambridge Magdalene has an e on the end, unlike the Oxford one which hasn't; & Caius is at Cambridge: so Magdalene/dagdalene, please, not as you had it. |
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25 Apr 12 - 03:17 AM (#3342906) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Doug Chadwick I believe That if you sieve The flour Before you pour The water It will save time later |
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03 Jul 12 - 11:26 AM (#3371311) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Mr Happy I got in a rage When locked in my garage For what seemed an age With nought to eat but porridge What an outrage! |
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03 Jul 12 - 12:39 PM (#3371335) Subject: RE: BS: A game with eye-rhymes From: Mr Happy Solomon Grundy Sailed to Lundy On a Sundy Came back Mundy |