2006-09-24 10:05:46 · 35 answers · asked by snukerx 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The words may have the same root (an apple that looks like a pine cone) but they're still separate words in their own right. It's not like rhyming phone and telephone at all because one is an abbreviation of the other and therefore refer to the same item. Apple is not an abbreviation of pineapple. It's more like rhyming England with Iceland; two completely different words but the rhyming part has the same root. It might be a bit of a cop-out and not a terribly sophisticated rhyme but it's still valid.
2006-09-24 14:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Gordon S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pineapple rhymes with fine apple. There has to be a part at the beginning of each word that's different. So obviously pineapple and apple are not the same word but they don't rhyme either.
2006-09-24 10:25:16 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Words That Rhyme With Apple
2016-11-07 00:50:47 · answer #3 · answered by alanna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pineapple does rhyme with apple - see the poem below that I have composed in response to your question.
Thoughts from Colditz.
I awoke to the German Appel
Breakfast was a Deutsche Apple
Pining for an Empire Pine-apple
Home would be my pinnacle.
Here we see the German word 'Appel' (roll-call), which sound the same as the English 'Apple' rhyming because of the context of the verse. I have hyphenated 'Pineapple' because of the context of the poem - our subject is pining for home (hence 'Empire'), and I have punned on 'Pineapple' by the use of the word 'Pinnacle', as the concluding word, and the aim of the subject, in this little poem.
Poetry is not about the slavish adherence to strict rhyme and meter. Yes, a Sonnet should have 14 lines, and rhyme, (unless your name is Meredith, who wrote very effective 16 line Sonnets). Look at the Sonnets of Tony Harrison - metrically perfect, but see how he cocks a snook at the Establishment in his rhyme-patterns.
Poetry is about word-play, pun, and using language to provoke, stimulate and enthuse the brain. I have used the sound 'apple' three ways in three lines, and punned on it in the fourth. If I was to write a further verse I would include strawberries and flat-bottomed boats propelled by the stern, in order that I could pun on puns, punts and punnets.
Your wife owes you a pint.
2006-09-24 11:28:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To make a proper rhyme for pineapple you would need to rhyme all the syllables of pineapple - but no - it's NOT the same word, they just have the same last two syllables that's all.
2006-09-24 14:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by franja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rhyme /rahym/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rahym] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, rhymed, rhym‧ing.
–noun 1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.
2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
Right. So, according to deffinition 2, only the terminal sound has to be the same. Which they are. [-uhl]
Next we take the deffinition of "Word"
word n.
A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.
Pineapple obvisouly is a word consisting of a combination of Morpheme's (two in this case), but it is it's own word. Beacause apple and Pineapple signify two very different real world objects.
Thus, because they are different words that end in the same terminal sound, they rhyme.
2006-09-24 10:33:05 · answer #6 · answered by Akfek_Branford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pineapple and apple are two different fruits. Pineapple is a tropical or nearly tropical fruit, is a herbaceous perennial 2- 1/2- 5 foot high with a spread of 3- 4 ft, with a short stout stem with a rosette of waxy strap like leaves while apples are from a tree and it is a round fruit with firm juicy flesh and red, yellow, green, pink skin when ripe. Pineapple rhymes with apple but they are not of the same word nor fruit family.
2006-09-24 10:29:44 · answer #7 · answered by geieyoung 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's like saying the words phone and telephone rhyme. The wife is right.
2006-09-24 13:35:07 · answer #8 · answered by Too-Nice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it technically does rhyme and no its not the same word
an apple isnt a pineapple is it ?
people say there are words that have no rhyme live "silver" but it ryhmes with silver imho
2006-09-24 10:09:04 · answer #9 · answered by Ðêù§ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
since they both end in "apple" it is the same word and does not count as a rhyming word.
2006-09-24 10:12:33 · answer #10 · answered by sea_sher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋