France and Pants Don’t Rhyme in the UK
May 17th, 2007, 6 Comments »
Just listening to Liza Minelli sing “Don’t Tell Mama” from Cabaret. She’s doing a British accent, and it just occurred to me that ‘pants’ (which typically refers to underwear in the British Isles) is pronounced so that it rhymes with ‘ants’, not ‘France’. From the lyrics:
Mama, Thinks I’m living in a convent,
A secluded little convent, In the southern part of France.Mama, Doesn’t even have an inkling
That I’m working in a Nightclub, In a pair of Lacy pants.
You learn something every day.
As you were.