There's no "wrong" enunciation in linguistics though. I wouldn't even argue that this rhyme is down to a particular speaker's idiolect.
There are lots of different dialects and accents in the UK, let alone the US. AAVE for example is as legitimate a dialect of English as General American. Bush, Trump and Sanders all speak "American English" yet they sound very different because of their regional accents even before you get into personal quirks.
There's no singular "correct" pronunciation today and there certainly wasn't one in medieval England. We just have "standard" pronunciations based on a rough approximation to one arbitrary dialect we decided to treat as the reference point.
> There's no "wrong" enunciation in linguistics though.
Yes there is. If a linguist a century from now claims that English speakers in 2021 pronounced "car" the same way they pronounced "book", they would be wrong.
Similarly, if they looked at one 2chainz song and concluded that in spoken word "pyjama" and "lasagna" rhymed, that would be wrong. Less obviously so, but wrong nonetheless.
The absence of a singular correct pronunciation doesn't diminish the infinite number of incorrect ones. Even the most ardent of descriptivists think that accepting a pronunciation based off of a single occurrence is somewhat taking the piss.
Yes,this is true, for linguists. Colloquially, man-in-the-pub test, I'm less sure. you can rhyme some words in all the dialects, but you can also ask most dialect speakers about RP and they know what you're talking about because they codeshift to RP on-need. RP itself, is somewhat definitionally "correct" for ordinary mortals. Wrongly, but none the less, I am reasonably sure this is widely believed/understood.
There are lots of different dialects and accents in the UK, let alone the US. AAVE for example is as legitimate a dialect of English as General American. Bush, Trump and Sanders all speak "American English" yet they sound very different because of their regional accents even before you get into personal quirks.
There's no singular "correct" pronunciation today and there certainly wasn't one in medieval England. We just have "standard" pronunciations based on a rough approximation to one arbitrary dialect we decided to treat as the reference point.