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

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Rhyming "Don" and "dawn" is not some negative attribute. It's not stupid or wrong, despite 20-some-odd pages here.

sure it is.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

Rhyming "Don" and "dawn" is not some negative attribute. It's not stupid or wrong

Yes it is, bostonfred's amusing objections notwithstanding.

 

[Doug B]

sure it is.

Do you goof on all those folks that say "yins"?

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

sure it is.

Do you goof on all those folks that say "yins"?

no idea what that is. never heard it in my life.

 

[Village Idiot]

Depends on where you live.

Right. If you live in Moronville you would say "no".

Think I've posted this before, but this test will tell you if you are from Moronville then.And no, they don't exactly rhyme. "Don" has a more clipped vowel pronunciation. Do you think that dawn rhymes with bon as in bon bon?

What American accent do you have?Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

 

[Village Idiot]

does dawn rhyme with lawn?

Of course

does don rhyme with lawn?

Of course not.

He really thought he was going to get you with that one.

you people are insane.I can accept people pronounding Dawn as "Dawun" or whatever...you want to differentiate between Dawn and Don, that's fine.

No way people pronounce lawn as lawun. Lawn is an exact rhyme with Ron, and there's no excuse for anyone to mess with this one.

What?No it isn't. It's not even close.

 

[Otis]

Lawn = Rawn ???



Effing hillbillies...

 

[Village Idiot]

How do you weirdos pronounce these words?

Paw

Law

Craw

Flaw

if Daw was a word, it would sound alike so just add an N to the end of it and you get Dawn.

I'm starting to think it's the o in Don that is causing the mixup here rather than the W in Dawn but I still have no idea how people can't tell them apart.

Oh my God. You pronounce paw different from Pa? Law different from fa la la la la? Craw different from, well, the right way to pronounce craw? Pawn sounds like pond, without the d. Paw sounds like pond, without the n and the d. Paws and pause are pronounced identically. If you're saying that your linguistic malfeasance has spread into almost every word with a w in it, then no wonder this poll is flawed.

Holy Bahston accent Batman.

 

[Village Idiot]

for the people that can't tell the two words apart and pronounce them exactly the same, if someone who could tell them apart heard them, which would it sound like?

They would both sound like "don" to someone who differentiates.

weird. I'm still not sure how they pronounce every other word that uses a similar vowel sound to Dawn though.btw, Lawn sounds just like Long minus the g at the end. However, it doesn't sound like Lon as in Lon Chaney.Braun also uses the same vowel sound as Dawn. LeBron doesn't.

LeBron and Braun aren't exact? wtf is wrong with you people.

We aren't from where you are apparently.Look at the poll results.Apparently you are in the minority./thread

 

[Village Idiot]

The "w" in "Law" is silent, Corky. It sounds just like "la" as in the musical scale.

oof.

Just give up Rud.They aren't going to change their minds and we aren't going to change our minds.When one of them talks about someone hot named "Don" we will just have to ask them if it's a chick or a guy.

 

[Doug B]

Do you goof on all those folks that say "yins"?

no idea what that is. never heard it in my life.

EvilGrin, Tim, and CrossEyed know about it, I'm sure. It's a western Pennsylvania thing ... "yins" and "yuns" meaning about the same thing as Southern "y'all". Figured Buffalo was close enough geographically to be exposed to "yins"/"yuns" spoken by non-natives.

 

[roadkill1292]

Do you goof on all those folks that say "yins"?

no idea what that is. never heard it in my life.

EvilGrin, Tim, and CrossEyed know about it, I'm sure. It's a western Pennsylvania thing ... "yins" and "yuns" meaning about the same thing as Southern "y'all". Figured Buffalo was close enough geographically to be exposed to "yins"/"yuns" spoken by non-natives.

YINZERS!!!!

 

[Raider Nation]

Harry from Mad Men can't distinguish the difference.

 

[mr roboto]

I'm so ####### confused after reading this.

 

[Raider Nation]

I'm so ####### confused after reading this.

They don't rhyme.The End.

 

[mr roboto]

I'm so ####### confused after reading this.

They don't rhyme.The End.

I agree.I loved that you and Smoo got on the damn phone to hash it out though.

 

[YSR]

My link

 

[PatsFanCT]

My link

I watched that, and immediately thought about this thread. Even Jeopardy writers can be stupid I guess.

 

[YSR]

My link

I watched that, and immediately thought about this thread. Even Jeopardy writers can be stupid I guess.

I actually jumped up and made my husband rewind the DVR. I figured there were other Jeopardy watchers and thought surely someone would have bumped this thread by now.

 

[Marvin]

My link

I watched that, and immediately thought about this thread. Even Jeopardy writers can be stupid I guess.

I actually jumped up and made my husband rewind the DVR. I figured there were other Jeopardy watchers and thought surely someone would have bumped this thread by now.

Gah...can't watch it for 35 minutes or so. CliffsNotes?

 

[Raider Nation]

My link

I watched that, and immediately thought about this thread. Even Jeopardy writers can be stupid I guess.

I actually jumped up and made my husband rewind the DVR. I figured there were other Jeopardy watchers and thought surely someone would have bumped this thread by now.

Gah...can't watch it for 35 minutes or so. CliffsNotes?

Some dummy and Trebek pronounced "Don" incorrectly.

 

[PatsFanCT]

My link

I watched that, and immediately thought about this thread. Even Jeopardy writers can be stupid I guess.

I actually jumped up and made my husband rewind the DVR. I figured there were other Jeopardy watchers and thought surely someone would have bumped this thread by now.

Gah...can't watch it for 35 minutes or so. CliffsNotes?

The category was homophones, and the answer was "The leader of a Mafia crime family, or Sunrise".

 

[YSR]

My link

I watched that, and immediately thought about this thread. Even Jeopardy writers can be stupid I guess.

I actually jumped up and made my husband rewind the DVR. I figured there were other Jeopardy watchers and thought surely someone would have bumped this thread by now.

Gah...can't watch it for 35 minutes or so. CliffsNotes?

Jessica: "Homophones for $1600"Clue: The leader of a mafia crime family, or sunrise

Jessica: "What is don/dawn?"

Trebek: "Don/dawn, right"

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Stil love Rude's "don."

"daaan"

 

[Sarnoff]

Homophones don't rhyme.

 

[hutchins929]

Eminem can make it work!!!

he can make things rhyme with orange!

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Stil love Rude's "don.""daaan"

 

[Marvin]

My link

I watched that, and immediately thought about this thread. Even Jeopardy writers can be stupid I guess.

I actually jumped up and made my husband rewind the DVR. I figured there were other Jeopardy watchers and thought surely someone would have bumped this thread by now.

Gah...can't watch it for 35 minutes or so. CliffsNotes?

The category was homophones, and the answer was "The leader of a Mafia crime family, or Sunrise".

My link

 

[Marvin]

Homophones don't rhyme.

Yes, the OP's original error was pointed out many pages ago and he apologized.

 

[bostonfred]

I have alex trebek on my side. You guys have rude dude and otis.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Stil love Rude's "don."

"daaan"

Now, before you freak out, I think there might be a slight difference, but you seemed to go out of your way to make them sound entirely different.

Like Frosty's post many pages ago, I'm from MN and avoided the Norwegian dialect disaster that plagues that state. I've also lived all over the US, certainly enough different places to have a decent sampling of regional differences. You'd think after umpteen pages of this that someone would point out that there is no right answer to this. It varies by region. Digging in is kind of pointless. For me, they are close enough as to be mostly indistinguishable, but for others they are distinct. Great. Let's battle over YouTube over regional differences. Yippee!

 

[Marvin]

Stil love Rude's "don."

"daaan"

"Daaaaahhhhhhhhhhn"

 

[Psychopav]

Depends on where you live.

Right. If you live in Moronville you would say "no".

Think I've posted this before, but this test will tell you if you are from Moronville then.And no, they don't exactly rhyme. "Don" has a more clipped vowel pronunciation. Do you think that dawn rhymes with bon as in bon bon?

Your Result: The Inland North

You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."

Yep, that nailed it.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

I have alex trebek on my side. You guys have rude dude and otis.

So you speak like a Canadian, eh?

 

[Apple Jack]

They're close enough to be homophones, but they are not pronounced the same. One is pronounced DAWN while the other is pronounce DON. HTH

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

 

[bushdocda]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

I drank enough Yuengling Logger to ravage a village of livers as a youth.

 

[the moops]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

Just because words have similar letters doesnt mean they have to sound the same.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Do you goof on all those folks that say "yins"?

no idea what that is. never heard it in my life.

EvilGrin, Tim, and CrossEyed know about it, I'm sure. It's a western Pennsylvania thing ... "yins" and "yuns" meaning about the same thing as Southern "y'all". Figured Buffalo was close enough geographically to be exposed to "yins"/"yuns" spoken by non-natives.

YINZERS!!!!

It's like I'm not even here.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

also,

pawned = pond

 

[Insein]

It's not even close.

 

[bostonfred]

Stil love Rude's "don."

"daaan"

King Dorkus von Buzkil has spoken.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

Just because words have similar letters doesnt mean they have to sound the same.

But they could sound the same. Which is what I'm asking. Do they?

 

[the moops]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

Just because words have similar letters doesnt mean they have to sound the same.

But they could sound the same. Which is what I'm asking. Do they?

No, they don't.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

Just because words have similar letters doesnt mean they have to sound the same.

But they could sound the same. Which is what I'm asking. Do they?

No, they don't.

Explain.

 

[cstu]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

Just because words have similar letters doesnt mean they have to sound the same.

But they could sound the same. Which is what I'm asking. Do they?

No, they don't.

Yes, they do.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

lager = la - ger

logger = log - ger

la != log

 

[cstu]

Stil love Rude's "don."

"daaan"

C'mon...it sounded like Beavis.

 

[the moops]

What's the verdict on "lager" and "logger"?

Just because words have similar letters doesnt mean they have to sound the same.

But they could sound the same. Which is what I'm asking. Do they?

No, they don't.

Yes, they do.

You may say them the same way, but you are saying them incorrectly. It's OK. I am from Boston and say #### all messed up. Doesn't make it right though. Look at the actual pronunciation of these words in a dictionary.

 

[cstu]

lager = la - gerlogger = log - gerla != log

log-ger?