Would it make sense for “rhyme” to rhyme with “time”?

Or for “through” to rhyme with “two”?

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    3 days ago

    As the other commenter said, rhymes would be with visual similarities.

    Linguistically, a rhyme is when two words share the same nucleus and coda. In regular terms, that’s the same ending vowel and the consonants that follow it.

    In ASL, words aren’t formed exactly the same way, but do have similar components that can be used to make rhymes. Rhyming words could have the same motion, but a different shape, for example. Or the same position, but a different motion.

    I don’t actually speak ASL, so I can’t be certain about what looks best as a rhyme, but I understand some of the principles.