No they don't, buck1017. They are pronounced just as choosegoose said in the portion of America outside of buck's head. Parenthetically, the words choose and goose have a similar relationship, which I guess makes this a little bit ironic.
I agree with buck1017. Cow brow makes more sense than bull skull, but bull and skull rhyme according to one of the ways I commonly hear them pronounced. I sometimes hear skull pronounced skawl, but I've never heard bull pronounced bool.
Bull, skull, full, and dull rhyme in Washington (where I live), at least. But I have heard people in other parts of the US pronounce the vowels in full and bull like a mix between the A in ball and the U in skull.... Anyway they all rhyme to me.
Like, does that mean yal pronounce skull like school? How the hell are bull and skull supposed to rhyme? I've been trying with every imitation of accent i can think of, and i reckon it'd take a Minasotan at the least. Bull school would work though
For me, I find this incredibly interesting. In Ohio, we say bull and full the same, and then skull and dull the same. I just think that's so cool, how even within one country and we all speak the same language, words can sound totally different between group of people.
Southeast Missourian here, and full and bull rhyme for me, but not with skull and dull which rhyme with each other. Cull, lull, and mull also rhyme with skull, but pull rhymes with full and bull.
TL;DR but this thread is so weird that I took a screenshot for my phonics instruction course to look at. We're taught to respect regional differences in pronunciation but according to the IPA, the medial vowel in "bull" is the /ʊ/ phoneme and is different from the medial vowel in "skull", which is the /ʌ/ phoneme or the short u sound. If you are pronouncing "bull" with the same vowel sound as "up", you are the one with the regional or non-standard pronunciation. You are not wrong in that sense, however you are not using a standard pronunciation. In standard English, "book" and "buck" would not be homophones.
It depends on context. If you say "Poor Butterfly" in a normal manner, "poor" will rhyme with "door." If you give the first word an exaggerated emphasis, then it sounds more like "newer."
Dude, I don't care if they don't rhyme in the UK, or wherever you're from, but they rhyme in America, thus, they DO INDEED rhyme. That doesn't mean they rhyme in every dialect, but they still rhyme.
It's slant rhyme, so it does actually rhyme. Just because it doesn't in one accent of English doesn't mean that the same applies to a different accent of English, like prior commenters have already stated.
Can't believe Groin Coin didn't work for pelvic gratuity.... Ha! Still got it right after thinking a bit more, and the correct answer is better (though less funny). Great quiz.
I think the Quizmaster puts out quizzes like this to generate lots of comments. Pronunciation must be the most differing factor among English speaking Jetpunkers. My Quizzes must be too self-explanatory for I never generate as many comments.
It took me a while to get the last one because of I was thinking of quarry as prey instead of a pit. Fir fur was the closest I could come until I thought of pine, and then just started typing every word I could that rhymed with it. I was surprised when mine worked, and then I had the face smack moment.
I don't think Quizmaster has used a dictionary for this. It's pointless trying for this quiz because there's no way that anyone could get "Dance" and "pants" to rhyme unless they're speaking with a non-standard accent.
Ooh, the arrogance of believing in 'standard' accents. I am from Southern England, and my accent is about as RP as it gets, but I often say 'dants', especially when singing - 'dahnce' sounds preposterous in a song. Check out 'Transmission' for Joy Division, and try to 'dahnce' along to that.
Also, I'm dissappointed that "funk trunks" wasn't an option for the disco jeans one.
/dɑːns/
pænts
Totally different.