NICU, For Dominic Edit #2.1

[milo]

River Notch wrote:"Fuss and abacus don't rhyme at all."

Wait, what?

You might want to note and in the future be aware that it is erroneous to believe that everybody pronounces words the same. I suspect you are British or Australian as as both countries pronounce the words differently than in the US. In the US those two words do rhyme. See below. (Have no fear you are not alone. Because this is an international site everyone who has come here has had to learn to make allowances. Best)      

Suggest you go to this link where you can hear abacus pronounced. Although there is a secondary pronouncement [uh-bak-uh s] is the primary one.   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abacus?s=t

Also note that the primary pronouncement for "Fuss" is [fuhs]. As you will note the [uhs] of fuss is almost identical to the [uh s] of  abacus.

Both are pronounced the same as "us" [uhs]. Although I suspect in British English it may be pronounced as /ʌs/, similar to the British pronunciation of /fʌs/  "fuss."  

OK, enough linguistics. Gack! Now I will have to go wash my mouth out.  

Dale




[uh s]

milo also said it wasn't a proper rhyme. I thought I had checked it when I first wrote this, but it was on my list of things to recheck. Regardless, since it throws the read off for some I may try to just move it out of its end spot where it won't matter.

The reason they don't rhyme is because the stresses don't line up. Technically you are attempting to rhyme /ah/ with /fuhs/. It is the same reason city and tragedy don't rhyme.