Pints & Ice

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Odessa Dawn

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pint noun

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/paɪnt/ [C]

ice noun ( FROZEN WATER )

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/aɪs/


It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you donate blood, they do give you a card. In times of scarcity this is supposed to guarantee you access to blood from the blood bank ahead of someone who wasn't a donor.

But it's not transferable to other people that I am aware of. I am not sure what collecting cards from other people would do.

If you need 3 pints of blood during some surgery and you have only donated 2 pints, it's not like they are going to refuse to give you what you need.

Can the word that has been marked in red be rhymed, of course with s, with ice.


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No. For the words to rhyme, the final vowel must be the same:

ice, lice, mice, twice, etc.

I can't at the moment thing of any words that rhyme with 'pints'.
 

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Neither can I. According to this list, "pint" does not have a perfect rhyme. Adding an "s" to "pint" does not seem to change things.
 
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