dear writers

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Good, blood, and food, despite their congruent endings, do not, in fact, rhyme. Please stop thinking you can get away with trying to squeeze in that rhyme. You can't. They don't rhyme. They  never will rhyme. Stop.

[Bannanachair]

If you're criticizing the likes of Shakespeare, I advise doing some research into the Great Vowel Shift. In case you're too lazy to do research, basically vowels used to sound different back in the 1500s and so "good", "blood" and "food" would have rhymed. It's just that the modern English spelling system was created prior to the GVS and, despite the best efforts of Webster to alter the spelling in his shitty excuse for a dictionary, American English managed to retain that particular aspect of the spelling system.

Edit: I would like to note that, despite what may have been implied by this post, the GVS didn't only make words stop rhyming; it also created homophones and new rhymes, such as "meet" and "meat" which i500 years ago would have been pronounced differently to one another.

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no, tim, i was criticizing prayers and hymns made within the last century or so

[Bannanachair]

English is a very dialectical language; look up videos on English dialects from around England. I'm personally unable to understand anything north of, and including, Yorkshire and Lancastershire, and a main reason that different dialects sound different is because they have different vowel sounds.

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you're such happiness