| Rhyming words with stressed -us [-'yːs] from Old Cornish /-ys/ (full list) |
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|---|---|---|
| lus | CN | bilberries |
| nus | MN | colostrum |
| sprus | MN | kernel |
| strus | MN | ostrich |
| us | CN | chaff | Rhyming word with stressed -us [-'yːs] from Middle English /-ys/ |
| us | MN | use |
| Rhyming words with stressed -uz[-'yːz] from Old Cornish /-yd/ (full list) |
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|---|---|---|
| gluz | MN | glue |
| gluz | 13 | sticks |
| huz | MN | magic |
| kluz | MN | heap |
| muz | AJ | mad |
| tuz | PL | people |
| uz | 13 | screams |
Rhyming words with unstressed -us may be placed into various groups,
in each of which the u may have a different sound.
(a) The clearest case, and the one with the most examples, is that of Latin words with -us.
The words in this group almost always rhymed with one another,
and not with those from other groups.
(b) Surprisingly, there are very few rhyming words in the texts with [-ys] from Old Cornish /-ys/.
The only clear example is plentethus (BK21.35).
(c) The name 'Jesus' (usually spelled ihesus) is found as a rhyming word only four times.
Twice (BM.0567, 0591) it is rhymed with numbus 'I have not' and once with ambus 'I have';
these rhyming words have [-œs], and the rhymes are considered as poor.
At PC.2673, ihesus is rhymed with profus, which has [-ɤs] < Old Cornish /-uid/;
this may be a closer rhyme.
(d) The following words with unstressed /-os/ are spelled with -oes in GM20.
It is now recommended that they be thus spelled
only when rhymed with stressed /-os/ and stressed /-oz/;
otherwise they are to be re-spelled as in the following table.
| angus | MN | anguish |
| anwuz | MN | chill |
| galluz | MN | ability |
| kafuz | VN | to get |
| profuz | MN | prophet |
| terruz | MN | disaster |
| unwuz | MN | akin |
About 14 well-defined pairs are attested.