Are we going on a road trip, are we huh? Maybe we can go someplace that rhymes with “frog snark,” perhaps?
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Are we going on a road trip, are we huh? Maybe we can go someplace that rhymes with “frog snark,” perhaps?
via Andrew Y.
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Ded. That is all.
Frog snark?
Too bad I didn’t have one of these contraptions for Pablo. He could have actually looked out the window like a real dog.
There are no adorable pups at my my Sephora. I am going to complain.
You have to go there when I’m there with Bibi. Ricky used to love it there. He’d drag me in.
The ladies would fuss over him, I bet.
They did, they did! And now they fuss over Miss Bibi, who is rather more receptive than Ricky was (he was a character).
It’s a date!
That puppy is ridiculously cute. Over at Reddit, they’re arguing about whether it’s a hedgehog or a hamster!
FYI, frog does not rhyme with dog in New York City English. I actually had to think for a minute! 🙂
I didn’t know NYC english is different that other US english, just the accents. Another pic that needed a warning label for too much cuteness. Maybe Sephora has a new kind of “powder puff”.
Philly English had me confused, too. Frog and dog don’t rhyme around here either.
NYCE definitely includes the accent, but also includes local locutions. (For example, unlike the rest of the US, we don’t stand *in* line, we stand *on* line.) In this case, though, it’s the accent that’s relevant. My NYC accent isn’t super strong, but “dog” definitely belongs to a different lexical set than “frog.”
(Lexical sets are things I have to know about in my work. Wikipedia’s page on them is pretty decent, though possibly still hard to understand if you have a lot to do with linguistics or phonetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_set )
That was supposed to say “… if you *don’t* have a lot to do …” 😞
So what does rhyme with frog? Inquiring minds…
bog, cog, fog, Gog (and Magog), hog, jog, log, nog, sog(gy), tog(s), a rude ethnic slur, and Zog. Just not dog!
Right. Me too.
Now I am intrigued, I can’t hear it over my Canadian accent– I need to hear it in my head. How do you pronounce ‘frog’?
As a New Yorker, I’ll chime in. Frog is sort of frahg and dog is sort of dawg.
I’m in central NJ and that’s how I say them (though maybe not as pronounced as some NY accents might). Though I suppose I’d still consider them close enough to rhyming words when I say them.
I’m emailing Mike an audiophile. Maybe he’ll be able to find a way to post access to it here.
I just noticed that I typed “audio file” as “audiophile.” I promise everyone that I did not, in fact, email Mike a hi-fi enthusiast.
I’m sorry for the delay in posting this, but here is the audio file that R&B’M was talking about.
I LOVE this! Thanks R&BM and Mike.
I love it as well!
Ahhhhh! Thank you for this!! I wonder why ‘dog’ pronunciation ‘strayed’ away from frog pronunciation.
I’m originally from upstate NY and I agree with you on those pronunciations (frahg and dawg). But I think in the Boston area where I’ve lived for many years frog and dog actually do rhyme. 😋
DubravkaMCVMD, that won’t help FKAWaldenPond, because like many from outside our area (at least half of USAins and many, many Canadians) pronounce caught the same way you and I pronounce cot. I have met many people who pronounce lawn as NYC Lon, dawn as NYC Don, etc. Show them “aw” and they’ll say “ah” (from our perspective).
You should all come to the South. Where some people pronounce dog with a long O sound.
I am imagining a ‘conference call’ party between all the Cutetropolian’s around the world. All the different accents; pretty neat, I tell ya. 🙂 I really love this space.
Oh, that would be fun!
I would love that it would be a language learner’s paradise for me 🙂
But does snark still rhyme with park?
And now I need to look up how New York City-ites pronounce dog and frog. (Could call you New Yorkers, I suppose, but I’m assuming this dialect is specific to the city. What is the proper term for you city folk?)
In the meantime, I’ll just take this cutie to keep me company while I research.
If you’re from New York City, then New Yorker means New York “Cityite.” Everything else (except Lawn Guyland and maybe Westchester) is just “upstate.” 🙂
Ha Ha! Maybe Westchester! A finer point.
Puppy’s ‘floof brushcut’!!!!!
Ridicululously cute puppers. How can anybody say no frog snark to that face?
Wow, level 10++++ cuteness and fluffiness!!! And yes, we can go to frog snark anytime you want.
Isn’t he a little small for a dog park trip? (I don’t know. I’m asking.)
There’s a dog park near where I work that has two sections, over 25 pounds and under 25 pounds. Other than that, I believe the signs just say the dogs are supposed to be over 12 weeks and have all their vaccinations. (Not that anyone’s checking….)
I once visited a dog park that had a separate fenced area designated for small dogs only. I don’t suppose that’s a common thing, but it seemed like a very thoughtful idea.
Very common here in NYC. Mike, if I send you a sound file illustrating NYCE pronunciations of frog and dog, do you have a way to upload it in that threadlet above?
All our local dog parks have separate small and large dog areas. Of course, half the time there are large dogs in the small dog side because their humans are such worrywarts they think their pups will get hurt playing with the other dogs the same size. It’s really unfair to the poor dogs, who are just *dying* to get across the fence and join the fun!
Does anyone pronounce gums “gooms”? That one really had me stumped the first time I heard it.
Sounds like the English Midlands and North to me.