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Do "dawn" and "don" rhyme? (1 Viewer)

Do "dawn" and "don" rhyme?

  • Yes

    Votes: 63 34.4%

  • No

    Votes: 120 65.6%
  • Total voters
    183
dgreen said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Let's say you happen to have kids and name your son Don and your daughter Dawn. One day your wife comes home and says "where are the kids?"Your response: "Dawn is at the movies and might need a ride later. Don is shopping."If you pronounce them exactly the same, your wife has no idea who needs a ride.
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Sure she does. The one at the movies needs a ride. Doesn't really matter which one. You think she's going to pull up to the movie theater looking for Don but when she only sees Dawn she's going to drive away without letting her in?
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Yeah, but what if one of them dirtied their shirt and crapped their underwear and needed to have an extra set of clothes brought to them. How would she know whether to bring the flowery panties or the spiderman underoos?
 
gianmarco said:
dgreen said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Let's say you happen to have kids and name your son Don and your daughter Dawn. One day your wife comes home and says "where are the kids?"Your response: "Dawn is at the movies and might need a ride later. Don is shopping."If you pronounce them exactly the same, your wife has no idea who needs a ride.
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Sure she does. The one at the movies needs a ride. Doesn't really matter which one. You think she's going to pull up to the movie theater looking for Don but when she only sees Dawn she's going to drive away without letting her in?
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Yeah, but what if one of them dirtied their shirt and crapped their underwear and needed to have an extra set of clothes brought to them. How would she know whether to bring the flowery panties or the spiderman underoos?
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I love watching the Don/Dawn are different crowd get stuck on this. As if the biggest concern in the world is a couple that's so stupid that they name their kids with names that sound identical to them, don't figure out a nickname, and now they apparently send their young children off to the mall and the movies on their own while they #### themselves. These are apparently real world issues for the people who pronounce Don/Dawn differently, but it doesn't seem to come up that often for those of us who speak proper English.
 
bostonfred said:
As if the biggest concern in the world is a couple that's so stupid that they name their kids with names that sound identical to them, don't figure out a nickname, and now they apparently send their young children off to the mall and the movies on their own while they #### themselves.
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This is the world we live in today, GB.
 
bostonfred said:
I love watching the Don/Dawn are different crowd get stuck on this. As if the biggest concern in the world is a couple that's so stupid that they name their kids with names that sound identical to them, don't figure out a nickname, and now they apparently send their young children off to the mall and the movies on their own while they #### themselves. These are apparently real world issues for the people who pronounce Don/Dawn differently, but it doesn't seem to come up that often for those of us who speak proper English.
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:shrug: I can't believe idiots that would argue about rhyming for so long.
 
bostonfred said:
Hoart Petterson said:
bostonfred said:
Hoart Petterson said:
Keep clicking the guy saying it in that link. You'll hear it. Click it over and over. Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don
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Wait, I heard it that time. He's saying Dawn.
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He's not. Your ear is off. I understand how you can hear him saying "dawn" but he's not. It's the same o that's in "pot" ahhhh. Keep clicking. Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don
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No, I hear it. I just say Dawn that way, too. Dawn is the word he's saying with an accent, by the way. He says it like doe-uhn. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dawn

Listen to it. Doe-uhn. Doe-uhn. Doe-uhn. Totally unnecessary elongation of the syllable with a whiny awwww sound in it.

Aaron, on the other hand, says Don like Dahhhn, with more of a shortened but still nasal twang to it. That's every bit as grating, but I understand what he's saying.
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It sounds that way because it is spelled "DAWN" (hence the "aww" sound) - not "DON" which is the "on" sound. Newsflash genius: Just because you don't like the way it sounds doesn't make it incorrect. In fact, your continual refusal to accept the fact that by most standards of American English, you are underpronouncing the "aw" sound in Dawn (and I presume then "lawn", "brawn", "drawn", "fawn" etc.) indicates more stubborness than correctness.

Let's try this one:

gone

 
I moved to Texas a little over 10 years ago. It took a few months but finally figured the dialect down here. If a word "normally" has one syllable, you pronounce it with multiple syllables. If a word "normally" has multiple syllables you pronounce it as one syllable.

 
DoubleG said:
bostonfred said:
Hoart Petterson said:
bostonfred said:
Hoart Petterson said:
Keep clicking the guy saying it in that link. You'll hear it. Click it over and over. Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don
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Wait, I heard it that time. He's saying Dawn.
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He's not. Your ear is off. I understand how you can hear him saying "dawn" but he's not. It's the same o that's in "pot" ahhhh. Keep clicking. Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don Don
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No, I hear it. I just say Dawn that way, too. Dawn is the word he's saying with an accent, by the way. He says it like doe-uhn. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dawn

Listen to it. Doe-uhn. Doe-uhn. Doe-uhn. Totally unnecessary elongation of the syllable with a whiny awwww sound in it.

Aaron, on the other hand, says Don like Dahhhn, with more of a shortened but still nasal twang to it. That's every bit as grating, but I understand what he's saying.
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It sounds that way because it is spelled "DAWN" (hence the "aww" sound) - not "DON" which is the "on" sound. Newsflash genius: Just because you don't like the way it sounds doesn't make it incorrect. In fact, your continual refusal to accept the fact that by most standards of American English, you are underpronouncing the "aw" sound in Dawn (and I presume then "lawn", "brawn", "drawn", "fawn" etc.) indicates more stubborness than correctness.

Let's try this one:

gone
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All kinds of wrong here.
 
In the song Delta Dawn, 'on' is used to rhyme with Dawn.....

on also rhymes with Don...

Ergo, Dawn rhymes with Don...

Q.E.D.

 
Not only are Don and Dawn perfect homophones, but I'll throw another word in that rhymes with both of them: 'shone' (past tense of shine).

Wacky American folks think that actually rhymes with bone, phone and zone, but they're bloody wrong.

 
Smoo said:
Not only are Don and Dawn perfect homophones, but I'll throw another word in that rhymes with both of them: 'shone' (past tense of shine).Wacky American folks think that actually rhymes with bone, phone and zone, but they're bloody wrong.
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Cease your monotone drone on shone or you will reap what has been sown
 
Smoo said:
Not only are Don and Dawn perfect homophones, but I'll throw another word in that rhymes with both of them: 'shone' (past tense of shine).Wacky American folks think that actually rhymes with bone, phone and zone, but they're bloody wrong.
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Oof. Dead wrong.
 
So, say, hypothetically.....someone doesn't even know where to begin in pronouncing merry, mary & marry differently.

How would you explain the difference? :football:

 
Jayrod said:
So, say, hypothetically.....someone doesn't even know where to begin in pronouncing merry, mary & marry differently.How would you explain the difference? :wub:
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You would have to make up a whole bunch of lies since they all sound exactly the same.
 
CowboysFromHell said:
the moops said:
Jayrod said:
So, say, hypothetically.....someone doesn't even know where to begin in pronouncing merry, mary & marry differently.How would you explain the difference? :lmao:
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Merry - VeryMary - AiryMarry - Larry
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Those all sound the same to me. So do don and dawn. :shrug:
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They do sound the same. However, dawn and don are different sounds. Some people don't hear them; we can only assume it is because they are genetically inferior.
 
bostonfred said:
gianmarco said:
dgreen said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Let's say you happen to have kids and name your son Don and your daughter Dawn. One day your wife comes home and says "where are the kids?"Your response: "Dawn is at the movies and might need a ride later. Don is shopping."If you pronounce them exactly the same, your wife has no idea who needs a ride.
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Sure she does. The one at the movies needs a ride. Doesn't really matter which one. You think she's going to pull up to the movie theater looking for Don but when she only sees Dawn she's going to drive away without letting her in?
Click to expand...
Yeah, but what if one of them dirtied their shirt and crapped their underwear and needed to have an extra set of clothes brought to them. How would she know whether to bring the flowery panties or the spiderman underoos?
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I love watching the Don/Dawn are different crowd get stuck on this. As if the biggest concern in the world is a couple that's so stupid that they name their kids with names that sound identical to them, don't figure out a nickname, and now they apparently send their young children off to the mall and the movies on their own while they #### themselves. These are apparently real world issues for the people who pronounce Don/Dawn differently, but it doesn't seem to come up that often for those of us who speak proper English.
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:lmao:
 
Jayrod said:
So, say, hypothetically.....someone doesn't even know where to begin in pronouncing merry, mary & marry differently.How would you explain the difference?
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See below.
joffer said:
I pronounce merry and mary the same, but marry is different
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Ditto -- "merry" and "Mary" for me have the same exact vowel in the first syllable as in "deck" or "bet". Quite different from the vowel in "fair" or "stare". A lot of people pronounce "Mary" with the "fair/stare" vowel.For me, the first syllable of "marry" has the same vowel as "sack" or "cat".
 
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St. Louis Bob said:
the moops said:
St. Louis Bob said:
RudiStein said:
Jayrod said:
So, say, hypothetically.....someone doesn't even know where to begin in pronouncing merry, mary & marry differently.How would you explain the difference? :lmao:
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You would have to make up a whole bunch of lies since they all sound exactly the same.
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:popcorn:
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You people are dumb
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I kept my last name after I got married.
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We got divorced. Thanks for bringing up old wounds.
 
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