Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

Consider the following rhymes, off the top of my head:

try and hide – cyanide
religion – pigeon
mind – try and
water – slaughter
along – strong – song
queen – seventeen
funeral – sooner-or-l… ater
society – impiety – propriety – variety
abdo’men – roman
church – perch
hears – grenadiers

Don’t you think these are, well, interesting? Have I been in the ivory tower so long that I stopped realizing that the masses find rhymes like be-me and you-too perfectly adequate for top-ranking songs? And for heaven’s sake, “come” does not rhyme with “home,” nor “time,” with “wine.”