rhyme and crime

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Are they pronounced the same " rhyme" and " crime"?Thank you

Nef · Accepted Answer

The endings sound the same ("yme" and "ime").  They both sound like they end the same way "time" ends.

CalifJim · Answer

Except for the "c" in "crime", yes, "rhyme" and "crime" are pronounced the same.

Did you mean to ask if they rhymed? Or did you mean quite literally "Are they pronounced the same?"

CJ

BW2/3 · Answer

Thank you all,

Califjim,

I mean that they pronounced the same.

Pidr1nhu · Answer

Sometimes I realize that in English some word pronounces can only be understood by considering the whole context or phrase, Am i wrong?
Ex: 'made' and 'maid', is there any possibility for you (especially for those who the mother language is English) understand their pronounces just listening them alone?

Clive · Answer

Hi,

No. You're right, the context gives the meaning.

Best wishes, Clive

Enca999 · Answer

Hi BW2/3,

If you listen the following two audio clips, you can tell the difference:

rhyme: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?rhyme001.wav=rhyme

crime: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?crime001.wav=crime

These audio clips are from Merriam-Webster free online dictionary. You can also use another freeware called EZPronounce to listen more words from different clip sources such as Answers.com, The American Heritage Dictionary.

Hope this helps.

Nef · Answer

BW23
Thank you all,

Califjim,

I mean that they pronounced the same.

They aren't exactly the same. The FIRST letters (the rh versus the cr) make the two words different in pronunciation.

But the endings (yme and ime) are pronounced the same way. The endings make the words rhyme, even though the first sound in each word is different. The words start differently but end similarly in the way they are pronounced.

Same pronunciation ? NO (because the beginnings are different, although the endings are said the same way)

Rhyme? YES

examples:

1. dine, fine, line, mine, nine, vine

hide, ride, side

fair, hair

go, no, so

These are not pronounced in the same way. Their first letters (and the sounds associated with those letters) are different. But they end in the same sound. They rhyme.

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2. see, sea

be, bee (the insect that makes honey)

too, two (2), to

for, four (4)

bare, bear

pain, pane (a piece of glass in a window)

hay, hey

so, sew

These are pronounced in the same way. The beginnings and the endings both sound the same, even though they are written differently. In order for words to be pronounced the same way, they have to START with the same letter. They can END in different letters, but without the same first letter they cannot have the same sound.

Waïti · Answer

Hey, this reminds me of an old album by Genesis which title is a play on word b/w 'rhyme' and 'crime' : Nursery Cryme <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/5.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/5.gif' alt='Emotion: wink'/>

BW2/3 · Answer

Nef, that is very good to explain.

Thank you all!

Nef · Answer

You're welcome.

One more very common example of words that are pronounced the same way:

no, know

(There are others, but this is a useful one.)

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