There’s just some things that leave a man no choice

Like a compass needle needin’ its true No-o-orth

some country song

I didn’t know that choice rhymed with North, did you?

But they do! Once you have heard them in this song, you cannot deny that they do!

And those words will rhyme for you forever after.

This is my favorite kind of rhyme — unexpected, gutsy even, but once you hear it, it clicks into place and feels so natural.

Here’s my professional, I-used-to-be-a-linguist analysis of why choice and North do, in fact, rhyme.

Both have an /o/ followed by a sound that narrows the vocal cavity but doesn’t stop the air (/i/ or /r/, which is a liquid), followed by a voiceless fricative articulated near the front of the mouth (/s/, or theta).

In case you are wondering, the country song in question is Love You Anyway by Luke Combs, which is in the subgenre of Self-Pity (Male Singer).