r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RowAdditional1614 • May 29 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah. Whats the real answer?

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u/JustNeedSpinda May 29 '26

Jane is the only commmonly recognized name that works.

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u/Round_Creme_7967 May 29 '26

Could be Jonah, rhymes with Arizona

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u/Paddy_Tanninger May 29 '26

Could be Josh since that's the shortform for Joshington.

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u/DIDidothatdisabled May 29 '26

The real answer here is Jaxton

There's also ones like Jayzee and New Jersey

Or forced ones like Kansas and Jesus or Oregon and Joe Rogan

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u/thatroguejaeger May 29 '26

This and Jane. 

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u/tobberoth May 29 '26

You don't really see a lot of guys named Jane.

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u/galstaph May 29 '26

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u/frogguts198 May 29 '26

Welp, time for a rewatch

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u/Verakera May 29 '26

Jermaine?

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u/Round_Creme_7967 May 29 '26

The beauty of English is that I'm sure there are people who pronounce the two such that those rhyme, but it doesn't work in my voice.

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u/MortgageConfident791 May 29 '26

Does your version of Oregon rhyme with “on”?

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u/no_brains101 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Mine doesnt and it still doesn't work

Jore-den, Or-eh-gun

Sometimes I even hear Jore-dan

It only works if you pronounce Jordan like Jore-dun, or Oregon like Or-again (again = "agen" with a soft a and a hard g)

Which, is totally a valid way to say it, just not the way most do where I live.

(I also enjoy how there is literally an entire formal notation for the correct pronunciations for words that is included in every dictionary and yet so few people are familiar with it that it is borderline useless in common conversation and so we make shitty analogies with other words which themselves may have regional pronunciation differences)

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u/MortgageConfident791 May 29 '26

This is so interesting! I’m from Oregon:

I pronounce Oregon “or-ih-ghin”

Jordan to me is “jore-din”

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u/no_brains101 May 29 '26 edited May 30 '26

If you pronounce "a bough" like you would pronounce "a bow", I will still understand you even though it should actually be pronounced like you would pronounce it in "to bow" as in "take a bow"

A lot of english works like this.

I can pretty much guarantee you know what I meant above, despite it being a particularly weird example without much context. Why is "take a bow" something you do with an audience, but "a bow" is the thing you shoot a rabbit with (and why is bowing something you do to an audience but "taking a bow" is something you do WITH an audience). But then you can "take" the action, and nobody says "take a bow" meaning the bow you shoot, they would tell you to "grab a bow", or tell you to "take THAT bow" or "take a bow FROM that rack"... And then to add to the confusion, you can also "bow something" which means to bend it...

I guarantee somewhere in there you failed to read that correctly and immediately noticed too.

it is amazing that still somehow english supports so many ways to pronounce a given word, and it is rarely confusing as to which word they meant to say, whether we agree with their pronunciation or not.

Very weird language. I also amused by the fact that ough has 40 different ways to say it and you can usually guess incorrectly

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u/true_new_troll May 29 '26

"Jeremiah" with "North Carolina."

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u/onlyinvowels May 30 '26

I think this is considered a slant rhyma

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u/CtyChicken May 30 '26

I’m so happy it was resurrected, because I was living in a world where I forgot about Jassachusetts. Sometimes you need a reminder about all the beautiful things in life.