Question.

[conuly]

Words that sound alike at the end (end, send, bend; can, ban, ran; book, nook, crook) are said to rhyme. Words that sound alike at the beginning (see, saw, summer; less, land, loop; hope, hop, horoscope) are said to alliterate. What about words that only sound different in the middle? Groups like book, bake, bark. Or cap, keep, cop. Or gout, got, gut. Don't they get a cool word too?

Comments

Regional accent difference...?

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's strange... Perhaps it's because of our regional accents, but the words you cited as being similar in the middle aren't for me -- the sounds seem completely different. (They wouldn't rhyme for me if put on the ends of words, either.)

Or there's something funky with my brain, which is possible. :)

Re: Regional accent difference...?

[conuly]

What I said is that they're similar everywhere but the middle. So bake and beak, for example, both start and end with the same sounds, but have a different sound in the middle.