Korean Job Discussion Forums

dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

I'm very certain these two words don't rhyme yet they are all listed in all the phonics books as doing so. They look like they should rhyme but the "o" in jog sounds like "j-ah-g" or the short "a". Why not use ""fog" or "hog"?

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

They rhyme for me. Different regions will pronounce the words differently.

Riddzy · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Location: London

They rhyme where I'm from (New Zealand and England).

Try pronouncing it in the Queen's English.

livinginkunsan · Joined: 02 Dec 2006

rhyme for me as well. Canada here

goodgood · Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Location: seoul

Northeast USA, sounds like a rhyme from to my ears.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

Me too.

ilovebdt

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:35 am Post subject:

Meh...people from Uranus speak funny.

!shoosh,

Ryst

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Moment of bizarreness - I agree with Dulouz about something! Shocked

People are right, though, about pointing out dialectal differences as the source of confusion here.

I'd also just point out the limits of using phonics in teaching English. There's a lot of exceptions to those rules (which suggests that they aren't rules).

antoniothegreat · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Yangpyeong

Seattle, they are the same to me.

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Same to me and I lived all over the North American west coast.

faster · Joined: 03 Sep 2006

CA / OR / MA
The rhyme to me just fine.

Now "porridge," "storage," and "orange"? Not quite.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:14 am Post subject:

a representative from the fine state of Virginia says they rhyme.

dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

It looks like I may have Merriam Webster on my side.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:38 am Post subject:

so the vowel in "jog" sounds like the vowel in "cloth" to you?

my virginian might be influenced by my welsh boyfriend.

polonius · Joined: 05 Jun 2004

Well I think you have answered your own question then. According to the Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries, the phonetic guide has the vowel sound listed the same. (Actually, even though they have the US pronunciation listed differently then the British, in the phonetics guide for US pronunciation, jog and dog do rhyme) And personally, I would choose British English over US English.