Questions tagged [rhyme]
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(German) Do the words "schwitzen" and "wichsen" rhyme? [migrated]
I have been in heated debate with a friend of mine who argues vehemently that these words, which I think do rhyme according to the common definitions, do not rhyme.
Do they? Also do "polster"...
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Simple Way to Determine if IPA Words Rhyme (English)
As a follow-up to my question at Mathematics of Rhyme (perfect, slant), I have been able to map most English words to IPA using a mix of custom code and a dictionary stored at flancast90.github.io.
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Mathematics of Rhyme (perfect, slant)
I have recently been working on some programming frameworks incorporating audio analysis of the English language, particularly whether words "rhyme" or not (pure rhyme, slant rhyme, etc.)
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Is rhymability of languages a quantifiable concept?
I know some languages besides English, and poetry in them rhymes much better than it does in English.
It's subjective, I know, but I feel like poetry generally sacrifices clarity for rhyme, while in ...
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Are rhyming words in the same phrase considered a form of reduplication?
Reduplication is rare in English AFAIK. However, we do have phrasal terms that consist of rhyming words: hanky-panky, hokey-pokey, hotsy-totsy, hoity-toity, itty-bitty, teenie-weenie, and itsy-bitsy ...
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