Not sure they all work well (English isn't my first language though so feel free to correct me!). Pinocchio-Tokyo and Brisbane-Lisbon don't sound right to me.
Pinocchio-Tokyo works just fine. Brisbane-Lisbon also works except for those of us who mispronounce Brisbane to rhyme with "rain" rather than with "sun." Learn something every day.
I wouldn't say Pinocchio and Tokyo rhyme, exactly. Brisbane and Lisbon I have no problem with. Bowl and Seoul? I think Hole and Seoul would be more apt.
By correct pronunciations, they technically don't rhyme, but who cares if the o is slightly opened and there's an unreleased velar plosive and the voiced palatal approximant follows the k instead of simply palatalizing it, it's close enough for this English quiz (English doesn't really differentiate those)
tokyo works if you pronounce bothwords with the sound o-ki-o which I think is correct for pinocchio but an americanism for tokyo, which should more correctly be a two syllable word to-kyo. It was however obvious which answer was intended.
Brisbane definitely rhymes with Lisbon. As someone who lives not far from Brisbane, I can assure you that if the way you say it doesn't rhyme with Lisbon, you're saying it wrong.
It's a source of amusement to Australians how much trouble non-Australians have with pronouncing Brisbane and Melbourne (and Woolloomooloo, and Wollongong, and Wagga Wagga, and pretty much every indigenous place name).
Then again, with places like Goonoo Goonoo (pronounced "gunna g'noo"),, you lot don't really stand a chance ;-)
I live in Hawaii, and I have not traveled anywhere but Hawaii and California, but I was going to go to Detroit, Michigan, but it costed to much money but I always wanted to go to Australia, I wanted to Go to Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane :)
Was on a roll until I got to Saag. Kept trying The Hague, until I realized that 1) it's not the capital of the Netherlands, and 2, English butchers the pronunciation, so it doesn't rhyme anyway...
English, ik Spanish-speakers like you (i assume) don't. Fijians themselves don't either though so you might have a point, it could be added as a type-in but Juba's probably better because English-speakers actually pronounce it as b.
Amsterdam is the only city officially named the capital of Netherlands, despite government and parliament being in The Hague. The royal family has 2 palaces in The Hague, but also one in Amsterdam.
yea I knew brisbane wasnt pronounced as it is written, and a lot of people ( rather agressively) are talking about how it is brisbun and doesnt rhyme with rain. (and conclude therefore the clue is correct) But noone says a word about lisbon. It only works if lisbon is pronounced as lisbun, is it?
Dang, got all of them the first try! Nice quiz, only one I don't think is perfect in my head is Ack-ruh and Shah-cruh, but I'm probably pronouncing something wrong.
if you have complaints then say the complaints, don't just hide your criticism and expect them to telepathically know what you mean and change those ones specifically
I don't think "brisbane" makes for a good prompt. After some investigation, it does in fact rhyme with Lisbon when said by an Aussie, but I've heard it pronounced to rhyme with "pain", which would mean it rhymes with "Port of Spain".
The annoying thing about the pronunciation confusion of Brisbane is that if you pronounce it as briz bayn is rather rhymes with Mbabane the capital of eSwatini.
Ok, do you guys say pinoooooocchio (which is so odd with the double c), or tokkio? cause for me they dont rhyme.
personally the seoul and bowl looks weird too, but that is only cause in my language it is pronounced say-ool. I knew it is seoul in english ( it stuck because it feels so odd to me. though in this quiz the answer didnt drift into my mind, perhaps otherway around it would)
My brain is cooked by the heat, my mother language is french and I worked in German the whole day, that was a struggle XD
I messed up pronunciations so much. Between the capitals I pronounce French like (Like Algiers, I basically always thought it was Alger but with an i inside XD) and a few English words I never heard pronouced before, that was hard.
lol! Living in Japan, my pronunciation of Tokyo is enough the Japanese way of pronouncing it that I would never have guessed it rhymes with Pinocchio. In my mind, I'm still thinking "Tohk Yo, Pi-noh-KI-yo, No they don't!" But, I still say Ivory Coast, so who am I to judge.
Yeah, I don't think this works very well. Even if you consider only english speakers, you'll have variation of pronunciations (even within one country). So one has to first guess which pronunciation is required before guessing the country it rhymes with.
In the US, "bowl", "hole", and "Seoul" all rhyme. ("Bowl" is pronounced like "bole", not "bowel".)
Similarly, "Pinocchio" and "Tokyo" also rhyme.
It's a source of amusement to Australians how much trouble non-Australians have with pronouncing Brisbane and Melbourne (and Woolloomooloo, and Wollongong, and Wagga Wagga, and pretty much every indigenous place name).
Then again, with places like Goonoo Goonoo (pronounced "gunna g'noo"),, you lot don't really stand a chance ;-)
Where beer does flow and men chunder?
personally the seoul and bowl looks weird too, but that is only cause in my language it is pronounced say-ool. I knew it is seoul in english ( it stuck because it feels so odd to me. though in this quiz the answer didnt drift into my mind, perhaps otherway around it would)
I messed up pronunciations so much. Between the capitals I pronounce French like (Like Algiers, I basically always thought it was Alger but with an i inside XD) and a few English words I never heard pronouced before, that was hard.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chile#Pronunciation
And maybe Brasilia/vanilla? (But I admit it’s not exactly the same).