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Summary: Extremely helpful and practical for the songwriter.
Review: I have used this book extensively in my search for the proper form and rhyme in my lyrics. I've bought several copies to give to friends and students. A must in any songwriter's library of resources.
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Summary: What Rhymes with Nickel?
Review: I opened my package and asked my girlfriend "give me a word to rhyme" and she said "Nickel." Well, I looked and couldn't find one.I looked up feminine (two syllable) rhymes starting with IK and found the following: I-ka, IK-en, IK-et, I-ki, I-king, IK-ing, IK-li, IK-ling, IK-lish, IK-lur, IK-ness, IK-nik, IK-ning, I-kon, IK-sen, IK-shun, IK-si, IK-sing, IKS-ture, IK-sur, IK-ted, IK-ting, IK-tive, IK-tur, IK-tur, I-kur, IK-ur, IK-urz. To see whether or not I had the wrong idea for how to rhyme this word, I looked up IB-l and it was there - dribble, kibble, nibble, quibble, scribble, sibyl. I'm sure there are better rhyming dictionaries out there. Off the top of my head I can think of Pickle, Trickle, Tickle, Sickle, Fickle, Bickle... There are online rhyming dictionaries better than this one! I bought this book on it's recommendation in Tunesmith by Jimmy Webb. Jimmy talks about a lot of rhyming books, and the one he recommended highest has been revised and the new version isn't as good as the old one, so this one seemed like a good alternate... Oh well, I guess I'm going to look for another rhyming dictionary. Since I should have more than one, I guess I'll keep this one, you never know when it might come in useful, but I wouldn't buy it. I don't have another rhyming dictionary for you, but I highly recommend J. I. Rodale's Synonym finder as a good thesaurus. Need another word for something? This book is an excellent resource.
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Summary: not intuitive
Review: this is the first rhyming dictionary i've looked at. i've two more coming in the mail, one from penguine and one from webster. this thing, so far, has been something of a dissapointment. it doesn't seem very complete. as a poet, i "do" want access to many of the more obscure words because some of these words can express thoughts very precisely. part of the idea of this book is to weed out the obscure words, so it is oriented toward song writers who are not interested in developing any degree of complexity or depth in their works. now i don't know what the convention is, yet, of rhyming dictionaries, but it took me a long time to find words that rhymed with "edge" because these words were to be found under the header "EJ". i don't know about you, but when i prounce "edge", i include the "d" in my prounounciation. under "EJ" are words that include and exclude the "d", for instance, directly below "ledge" is "allege". secondly, i went to look for words that rhymed with "glow" and couldn't find them for anything. i just happened to stumble across these words under the heading "O", not "OW". this was kind of interesting. under the heading "O" are words like "foe", "fro" and "grow"; i suppose it works, but it was still an odd place to find "OW", so far as i'm concerned. at the very least, a little information under "OW" (where you might look for words ending with "ow") saying to look under "O" for the list. anyway, i feel this book is pretty poorly organized and so far it hasn't gone very far with me. my first impression of this book was REALLY bad, but as i become familiar with it, my oppinion has grown from a single star to one more.
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Summary: not intuitive
Review: this is the first rhyming dictionary i've looked at. i've two more coming in the mail,... this thing, so far, has been something of a dissapointment. it doesn't seem very complete. as a poet, i "do" want access to many of the more obscure words because some of these words can express thoughts very precisely. part of the idea of this book is to weed out the obscure words, so it is oriented toward song writers who are not interested in developing any degree of complexity or depth in their works. now i don't know what the convention is, yet, of rhyming dictionaries, but it took me a long time to find words that rhymed with "edge" because these words were to be found under the header "EJ". i don't know about you, but when i prounce "edge", i include the "d" in my prounounciation. under "EJ" are words that include and exclude the "d", for instance, directly below "ledge" is "allege". secondly, i went to look for words that rhymed with "glow" and couldn't find them for anything. i just happened to stumble across these words under the heading "O", not "OW". this was kind of interesting. under the heading "O" are words like "foe", "fro" and "grow"; i suppose it works, but it was still an odd place to find "OW", so far as i'm concerned. at the very least, a little information under "OW" (where you might look for words ending with "ow") saying to look under "O" for the list. anyway, i feel this book is pretty poorly organized and so far it hasn't gone very far with me. my first impression of this book was REALLY bad, but as i become familiar with it, my oppinion has grown from a single star to one more.
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