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  2. Why does "orange" rhyme with (almost) nothing in English?

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    Firstly, orange does rhyme with a few words: there's the word 'sporange' in botany (and related words hypnosporange, macrosporange, and megasporange) whose American pronunciation rhymes with 'orange', there's a hill 'Blorenge' in Wales, and it has been claimed (perhaps humorously) that in some dialects, 'door-hinge' is pronounced to rhyme with 'orange'.

  3. grammar - Why does orange have a rhyme? - English Language &...

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    Sep 8, 2018 at 23:32. 5. That very same says that "gorringe" is. A surname (very rare) and when you click on the for "sporrange", it links to a , which reads: Although sporange, a variant of sporangium, is an eye rhyme for orange, it is not a true rhyme as its second syllable is pronounced with an unreduced vowel [-ændÊ’], and often stressed.

  4. lyrics - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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    The two words 'orange' and 'tinge' are not what are referred to as a perfect rhyme. However, it is a slant rhyme. A slant rhyme consists of two words that have similar, but not perfect assonance. As well, the two rhyming words do not necessarily consist with the same number of syllables. Orange and tinge fall into the slant rhyme category.

  5. Is there any rhyming word for the word 'month'? [closed]

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    Mar 15, 2013 at 8:56. I think it's General Reference that no "standard" English words rhyme with, for example, month and orange. But even if you don't already know that, other people are always looking it up, so Google will very quickly lead you to the same web pages they end up finding. – FumbleFingers.

  6. pronunciation - Rhymes for purple, orange, and silver - English...

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    purple - turtle, hurtle (to move or fall with great speed and force), burble (continuous murmuring noise) etc. "Purple"has many words for its rhyme. Share Improve this answer

  7. By the formal definition of 'rhyme' (matching the last few sounds), yes, a word rhymes with it self. But to actually use it in a poem is jarring in its lack of imagination. So it violates the rules of artfulness. Share. Improve this answer. answered Oct 20, 2011 at 1:43.

  8. To judge from the dialect that Andy Griffith uses when he says "big orange drink" (at roughly 0:35, 0:48, 3:03 of the video) in his comedy piece "What It Was Was Football," at least some people in rural northwestern North Carolina pronounce orange as a single drawled syllable that resembles "arnj." Griffith was from Mount Airy, North Carolina ...

  9. Origin of "queer as a clockwork orange" - English Language &...

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    Queer as a clockwork orange: Burgess took his title from a little known Cockney expression from the 1950s, 'as queer as a clockwork orange' that is, homosexual, which may derive from the phrase 'as odd as an orange'. (Expressions & Sayings) From: The International Antony Burgess Foundation: The title of the novel, A Clockwork Orange, derived ...

  10. What different types of rhymes are used here?

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    6. In this video with rapper Eminem, he makes the following rhymes: "I put my orange, four inch, door hinge, in storage, and ate porridge with george." Following the Types of Rhymes wikipedia article, I can only connect a few types of rhymes used here: imperfect (or near), assonance, and consonance. Am I missing other types of rhymes he makes?

  11. etymology - Why is it called a 'feminine rhyme'? - English...

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    A rhyme is called feminine when the last phoneme is a mute e (formerly called an "e féminin"). That is, a rhyme was called feminine if the words ended with a mute e. Back when the rules for French poetry were formulated, these e 's were pronounced, but unstressed, and one name for them was feminine e 's.