Orange
 

according to the http://www.rhymezone.com/ there are no perfect rhymes for the word orange.

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Syringe comes close enough, when I say it out loud.

I can attest that there are no remotely good rymes with orange
even with a accent they fall flat

dahl
Orange County High School
Orange County VA

if you just take part of the word orange there are a lot of words that rhyme. there are a lot of words that rhyme with o-r-a-n like: KoRn, worn, horn, porn, sworm.

There are no rhymes for orange. the same holds true for month, silver, & purple.

no words rhyme...i literally spent 4 and a half hours with some friends looking for one once. and plus accents wont make a difference cuz the accent will affect how you say orange and how you say the other word in the same way.

someone said there was no rhyme. i was determined to prove him wrong...what can i say? and the only reason i stopped looking for one is cuz school ended.

There are no PERFECT rhymes to the word orange. However, and depending on your accent, there are some slant rhymes. A slant rhyme would be something that rhymes only if you say it the right way, or depending on your pronunciation. As for silver and purple? I know there was a song once that rhymed the word purple. it goes like this...

Well Roses are Red
And Violets are Purple
Sugar is Sweet
And So is Maple Surple

In other words, he created a word. So basically anything could rhyme, but no REAL words.

purple...
what about girbel or maple or grapel?

or Burple (tm)

remember those?

from http://www.inthe80s.com

Actually Carolyn, I learned that in 8th grade English, thank you very much.

Steve Erkle rhymes with purple.

Erkle & purple do not rhyme, and nurple isn't a word.

sure they do

A trashery of haberdashery.
 

The lyrics "...maple surple" are from an old Roger Miller song called "Dang me".

If you want some more of those invented word rhymes, check out some Ogden Nash poetry

This is from one called "common cold"

Give ear, you scientific fossil!
Here is the genuine Cold Colossal;
The Cold of which researchers dream,
The Perfect Cold, the Cold Supreme.
This honored system humbly holds
The Super-cold to end all colds;
The Cold Crusading for Democracy;
The Führer of the Streptococcracy.

Take note, all you would be poets, for there has never been a better line in a poem than, "The Führer of the Streptococcracy"

you can see the rest of the poem at: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/325.html

how doesnt erkle rhyme with purple? they sound the same to me.

now thats what i'm talkin about

They aren't rhymes. They have to have the exact same sound at the end like moon & noon.

couldn't you call it half rhyme, near rhyme, off rhyme, or slant rhyme? thats still rhyming.

But not true rhyming.

you do agree that it's still rhyming don't you?

No.

someone wanna help me out?

Er. .
 

Saying rhyme by itself lacks a sufficient adjective, so it can therefore be interpreted as any of the above. However, if you wish to enforce the rule that they must have the same ununciation (sp?) in order for them to rhyme say "The words xxx and yyy don't fit my definition of rhyme because they zzz rhyme, rather than full rhyme". . replacing xxx, yyy and zzz accordingly

Rhyming
 

No one ever said anything about TRUE rhyming so he should be able to do all the others....right?


just some obviouse help

i gotta agree with david here. it sounds the same to me. therefore it rhymes to me.

Definitions of rhyme:


verb: compose rhymes
noun: a piece of poetry
noun: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (esp. final sounds)

erkle and purple definately have a "correspondence in sound"

Eddie, you shoulda learned this by now. Haven't you read Shakespeare's poetry?If anyone makes any negative remarks about Shakespeare I'll scream so loud your monitor will crack! There are even such rhymes as forced rhymes that really don't sound anything alike. They are still considered to be rhymes. Nothing in the English language is without exception so...
...except in the instances of...
Do ya get it now? You don't have to understand it or even like it but face it, that's the way it is. You can't change it so don't make yourself seem uneducated (I'm not saying that you are just that you make it sound that way by your comments).

the one place i thought i was safe from shakespeare...

yeah, well ill have to remember to tell my english teachers that. but i dont know...cuz even if you read good ones the teachers still gonna take a month per act and completely analyze the goodness out of it.

Technically, it's not rhyming Carolyn. Read Joelster's reply.

"A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet"

-Ed "I can't believe I just quoted Shakespeare" McDonnell

People were talking earlier about making up words to make things rhyme. Has anyone ever read the poem Jaberwocky by Lewis Carroll? My freshman English teacher, the loon she was, made us replace all of the non-sense words with real words, keeping the same rythm and rhyme sceme to the poem. Needless to say, I didn't complete that assignement (oops!). The words are below.

~Angela who never thought she would ever mention freshman English again
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The Jaberwocky

By Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffing through the tugey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jaberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did grye and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

And I thought my English teachers were bad...

I LOVE that poem, i memorized it because nonsense poetry is SUCH an ispiration to my own work. Well goto go
Flair - Chock one more post on that board!

Wait a sec: I think I have an idea that doesn't involve blowing something up! YES!

Thank you Carolyn.

You should be.

an idea...without...a hand granade???

Don't you mean Holy Hand Grenade?

*hears a rimshot followed by scattered "boo's"*

maybe if i knew where to find them

Uh, no Carolyn, not basketball.