Rhymes talk:English/æŋ

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This really isn't very relevant to rhyming, but I just want to point out that many Americans always pronounce this sequence more like [eɪŋ] or [eŋ]. Apparently, it is common to say things more like [æŋ] in Britain and probably in parts of the Northern US, and common to say things like [eɪŋ] in California and Texas. Beyond that I have no idea what the distribution of the two (or more) varieties are. As I said, this doesn't really complete rhymes (because every instance of what is commonly called "/æŋ/" is affected,) but I wanted to point it out because it's something people rarely talk about.