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The same is true for Honey's assumptions about Buddha , which he implies is universally pronounced in AE with the vowel of boot ; about Moscow , the second syllable of which is not always rhymed in AE with cow ; about Nepal , which is pronounced identically to the British (RP) way by many AE speakers; and about Vietnam , the -nam of which, contrary to the author's information, is pronounced by many AE speakers to rhyme with dam , not palm . As for Pakistan , Americans tend to give both a sounds the same quality, whether they rhyme them with that in father or in man . On the other hand, the pronunciation of Afghanistan in Britain follows either the pattern of Pakistan , which has the a of man in the first syllable and that of father in the last, or, as in America, is heard with the a of man in both positions.
The rhyme might not have been a very good one, but the chant went up nonetheless--Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommy-grant--originally expressing a prejudice against assisted immigration of any sort, but later, simply because of the numbers involved, becoming focused on the British, and later still on the English.
"It would be unfair to call this a nursery rhyme; it was childish rather than childlike," writes Donald Clarke in The Rise and Fall of Popular Music . "Nobody knows how many music fans stopped listening to the radio after hearing 'Doggie In The Window' too many times."
Is it possible to write in rhyme and meter more gracefully and plainly than Ben Jonson (1573-1637) does in "His Excuse for Loving"?
In this line, the vowels almost rhyme: "ee ah, ee aw, eh ee, yuh oh, eh ee."
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