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Rhyming nicknames

rhyme so you could have a steady Eddie Handy Andy Mary Jerry Bonnie Johnny Smiley Kylie I'm often called Juicy Lucy it really works well with two syllable names here's a challen...

Course: Richer words and phrasesSection: Rhyming slang and wordplaySubtitles: en

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if they

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rhyme so you could have a steady Eddie

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Handy Andy Mary Jerry Bonnie Johnny

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Smiley Kylie I'm often called Juicy Lucy

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it really works well with two syllable

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names here's a challenge for you can you

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think of a rhyming reduplication for

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your own name or a British name that you

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can think of preferably your own name

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but some of them might be quite

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difficult I'm thinking Muhammad doesn't

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really rhyme with much maybe you could

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go with Mo now anyone can make rhyming

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reduplications about anything and

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there's a really common format it often

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happens by replacing the first consonant

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with in the reduplication it's very

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childlike as you can hear

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my friend Jenny Winnie wrote a bookie

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Wookie about her doggy Woogie there's

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another challenge for you in the

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comments section see if you can write a

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childish sentence using this W consonant

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sound it's your homework won't work

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okay one more thing I want to cover

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rhyming schmiming rhyming smiling why do

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we say things like that this is called

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reduplication I repeated the word

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rhyming but I replaced the first

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consonant with

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rhyming

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