Wolf

[linlam]

Can anyone think of a word that rhymes?

[fergol]

ROLF as in rolf harris 

[fergol]

golf

[Quizmonkey]

Fergol - those are eye-rhymes only. Neither actually rhymes with wolf.

It depends on how you pronounce wolf really: if your accent doesn't pronounce the L, you could get away with MORPH. But if you say wool-f I don't think there is a true rhyme.

[Goofy]

um - not sure about either of those. Wolf is prnounced as wool with an F.

[Goofy]

honest quizmonkey - your reply wasn't ther when I posted mine!

[incognito]

the name Ranulph can be pronounced to rhyme woth wolf

[linlam]

Thanks everyone...so apart from the Ranulph ..it looks like the word is another non-rhymer, as orange is. And I lose the bet:(

[badlad]

What about GULF.

[Quizmonkey]

Gulf doesn't rhyme!!!!

[kev100]

gulf rhymes with wolf although I cant imagine how you would work the two into a poem.

[grannyg]

What about Woof as said by a dog?

[Quizmonster]

Woolf, the surname as in the novelist, Virginia, rhymes. Apart from that, I don't think any of the words offered above does.

[Chinajan]

Gulf so does rhyme, but perhaps only to those of us with a northern accent.  Can't think of any other rhymes for it.  Woof?  No, what about the 'l'?

Apologies for slight hijack, but why do some people refer to 'oop north'?  We don't pronounce 'up' as 'oop'.  That would rhyme with hoop.  It's more of a rhyme for, say, the 'u' in 'push'

[Quizmonster]

There is no way in which 'gulf' and 'wolf' rhyme in "standard" English pronunciation. However, just for you, Kev, I'll pretend to be a northern Englishman - not easy given that I'm a northern Scotsman! - and provide the opening two lines of a poem for you...

"There's a yawning gulf
Between man and wolf."

See if you can finish it off.

[Quizmonkey]

Chinajan: People say 'oop north' because the double O is pronounced as in BOOK, not as in HOOP - ie exactly the same pronunciation as the U in PUSH...

[Chinajan]

Ah right.  The only trouble is, where I live in Yaaarkshire, a lot of people pronounce book to rhyme with hoop.  Err, except for the 'p' at the end of course. 

[Quizmonkey]

Bit of a minefield all this dialect stuff, isn't it? I've a degree in linguistics and some of the arguments in phonetics seminars (from students from different parts of the UK) were amazing. Sometimes it almost came to blows.

[Chinajan]

It is indeed a minefield.  The BBC's Voices project has me fascinated. 

Just this morning, someone informed me that they were nipping out to the 'kwop'.  No doubt you'll guess they meant the Cooperative Society shop, but I've never heard it pronounced that way anywhere but in these parts.

Apologies again for the thread hijack.

[linlam]

Gulf!! of course gulf rhymes with wolf!!. (Sorry Quizmonkey....it's a north western dialect I have...book rhymes with puke or duke , and I live up north, not ap north.... I love dialects, I can imagine a great deal of frustration when you were doing your degree!)..badlad you must be from my neck of the woods( rhymes with spuds)..Chinajam book rhymes with cook here too!

Quizmonkey again...

"There's a yawning gulf                                                Between man and wolf,                                                Unless they share the name                                         Ralulph."

That's the best I can do!

Thank you all again!            

 

 

                                           




 

[linlam]

I've no idea what happened  there ^^^^^

Shall I post a query on Internet and Technology?