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When Two Words Sound The Same (for Example, 'Make' And 'take'), What Is This Known As?

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              When two words make the same sound, like make and take, we call that rhyming. The two words are said to rhyme, and may not necessarily be spelled the same way to rhyme, like for example Although and go, which rhyme, and will be included in a poem or rhyme.

              This ability in The English language is hard to grasp for non native speakers           especially for those whose language is phonetic like Italian. Spelling practice is not necessary for them, as what you see is what you say.

               However, when English children learn their language even before school, they learn scores of rhymes, limmericks and riddles, to help them make the sound associations that are so necessary in English.
              
              So for example every English child learns:
    Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
    Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
    All the king horses and all the kings men,
    Couldn't put Humpty together again.

              Men and again only seem to  rhyme if you are English.
              Then another standard:
    Hey, The cow jumped over the moon,
    The little dog laughed to see such a sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
    These rhymes are also used to teach the stress timing, unique to the English language, that non native speakers find so difficult to grasp.

              It's a wonderful language we own.
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    Wisequeen 

    answered 3 years ago

      Actually nothing because is just a word
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      Guest

      Guest 

      answered 1 month ago

        Homophone
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        Guest 

        answered 3 weeks ago

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