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My friends I have just, through an extremely confusing email conversation in which both of us thought the other must be joking, learned that ‘Hawke’ does not rhyme with ‘fork’ in American English, and it has broken my brain
I’m trying to explain pronunciation of what I thought was an extremely easy name. Sam like ham, Hawke like fork
Which led to a very confused exchange as the other party thought I was kidding (‘hawk doesn’t rhyme with fork though!!?’ Don’t you mean gawk?’) and I thought THEY were kidding (ALL OF THOSE WORDS RHYME)
And culminated in three very confused Aussies making the lovely @melisscaru say these words out loud, amidst much giggling.
Thank goodness for Discord chat solving this baffling problem. Haha. Anyway, for those of you following and either saying HOW DO YOU SAY THOSE WORDS SO THEY DON’T RHYME or HOW DO THEY RHYME, Aussies say ‘aw’ much the same as ‘or’. Or, awe, saw, sore, these all sound the same.
Americans say ‘aw’ more like our ‘ar’ so hawk sounds more like it rhymes with car than fork.
