Oh my fucking God. You people can not be real.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/raghttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/HandThey are the exact same fucking vowel sounds. Accents don't affect consonants, they affect vowels (well, aside from the British apparently eliminating the pronunciation of T's from the middle of words these days).
The vowel sounds are identical. It's a short A. Hand. Rag. Bat. Fag. Ass. Laugh. Matt. Crack. Brash. Has. That's a short A. Period, the end.
Thanks for playing, idiots.
Kill You wrote:Hand and rag don't rhyme at all. Are you fucking deaf or something? Say them out loud, with me:
HAND
RAG
They don't rhyme you buffoon.

Go away EminemInsider/Amadeo/whoever the fuck you are.
Well, then you're saying Eminem sucks, because he's been rhyming "an" with other short-A vowels his entire career.
I think it's pretty clear to everyone that you're not only a complete nubjob, but inconceivably stupid.