will there ever be a word that rhymes with orange, silver or purple? 1

[spewn]

just thought i'd throw this out there. throw it back if you don't want it.

- g

 

[craigsboyd]

curple and hirple

Perfect rhymes for "orange" and "silver" do not exist. However, to definitively say there will never be such words is a bit of a stretch. Besides, since you haven't quantified what constitutes a word, someone could just make a couple of them up to suit.

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[spewn]

i saw that in my post, but trying to correct with 'real words' means nothing, since even the dictionary recognizes some real street slang now...which, btw is the most garbage thing a company has ever done to increase sales; adding teenage slang to 'include' that underserved segment of the population...i lost respect for the dictionary (MW at least). i might make my own.

as far as curple and hirple, good score. but once again brings up my point of stupid words. but i guess most words that were introduced were considered dumb at one time or another...however, i found several different defs for curple.

so i guess the answer is yes, there could eventually be a word or words that will rhyme with silver and orange, although i had heard somewhere that their structure makes it impossible to create another rhyming word, although by that logic, we wouldn't have those two words in the first place.

- g

 

[strongm]

>by that logic, we wouldn't have those two words in the first place

Not at all. The argument is that only one word can have the particular structure, and we already have that word.

 

[stackdump]

Doesnt lozenge count as a rhyme for orange?

Sorry about my rotten poetry but as an example...

I tried to find a blue lozenge,
I found green, yellow and orange.

 

[Dimandja]

>Doesnt lozenge count as a rhyme for orange?

We had a thread hereabout about this.

Anyway, I think we generally agreed (it was a Friday) that rhyming is in the eye of the beholder, or something to that effect.

Binge, cringe, quiver and liver can all rhyme with orange or silver.

 

[SantaMufasa]

How about:

"With all the leftover gallon of orange,
I decided to paint the rusty door hinge."

"Hide your china, jewels, and silver;
Failing this, bad guys will pilfer."

"Roses are red, violets are purple;
I love waffles with maple syrple."

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[spewn]

"..Not at all. The argument is that only one word can have the particular structure, and we already have that word..."

uh, the argument was that the structure of the word makes it impossible to have another like it, but if it happened once, it could happen again. that's the argument.

like saying, the events that led to humans on earth was such a chain of random catastrophes that it happening again seems impossible, but the argument would be that if it happened once, it can't be labeled impossible.

- g

 

[Dimandja]

Going on binge?
I cringe and quiver
How about my liver
I'd rather have an orange

 

[spewn]

not that i'm captain rhyme or nuthin', but:

"With all the leftover gallon of orange,
I decided to paint the rusty door hinge."

"Hide your china, jewels, and silver;
Failing this, bad guys will pilfer."

"Roses are red, violets are purple;
I love waffles with maple syrple."

all have no basis in rhyme. (pilfer/silver close, tho)

and Binge, cringe, quiver and liver can all rhyme with orange or silver...that's a big NO!! however, i got a friend from Jersey, and with that accent, i could see how it's close...

my homie says:
"yo, dis is joy-zee, and owt-ear we know cuh-ringe rhymes with or-ringe, beeeeaach!"

- g

 

[chipperMDW]

Perhaps you should specify what definition of "rhyme" you are using before claiming that other suggestions don't meet your requirements.

 

[tsdragon]

Before you can come up with a rhyme for a word you really have to agree how it is pronounced. Silver and purple have pretty standard pronunciations, but orange:

ornj (single syllable)

OR inj (two syllables, and almost rhymes with door hinge)

I've heard both pronunciations used about equally.



Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[spewn]

well, i'm not certain what definition of rhyme you are referring to, but i'm meaning the type that relates to "...A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold..." (from dictionary.com)

but i'm curious what other definition you have for "rhyme".

now, you can always vary the pronunciation (or annuciation) of words to make them sound like eachother, of course...as we see in songs and some poems, and we also find words pronounced differently as we go state to state, or even country to country depending on dialect and inflection.

now what.

- g

 

[tsdragon]

A rhyme can hinge on the terminal sound, or on the sound of the last syllable, or two syllables, or more. Rhyme can (and usually is) base on the terminal sound and the number of syllables. In that respect "orange" (somewhat) rhymes with "door hinge" if you pronounce it as a two-syllable word.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[chipperMDW]

A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold

[ul]
[li]binge,[/li]
[li]hinge, and[/li]
[li]cringe, with[/li]
[li]orange[/li]
[/ul]
all correspond with one another in terminal sound, as do
[ul]
[li]syrple with[/li]
[li]purple[/li]
[/ul]
and
[ul]
[li]quiver and[/li]
[li]liver with[/li]
[li]silver,[/li]
[/ul]
all of which were unacceptable to you.

I was suggesting that you specify what parts of the terminal sound you want to correspond.

In your case, I think you want to find words whose final two syllables correspond to the syllables in each of the words you've specified.


Also, you should specify how close the correspondence needs to be.

For example, the word "weaver" rhymes with the word "feebee" in that the final two syllables correspond in their vowel sounds. They do not correspond in their consonnant sounds, however.

I'll suggest that you were looking for words whose final syllables exactly match the final syllables of your specified words, and whose second-to-final syllables match them except for perhaps the beginning consonnant sound.

Thus, if they were actual words, the following would be acceptable rhymes for you:
[ul]
[li]bilver rhymes with silver[/li]
[li]gorange rhymes with orange[/li]
[li]nurple rhymes with purple[/li]
[/ul]

However, unless you count "nurple" (as in "purple nurple"), there are no current English words that rhyme so precisely with "purple" or "orange." I can't say the same for "silver," but it seems likely.


So if you're still looking for rhymes, I'll leave it up to you to loosen those requirements as to what counts as one.

 

[SteveGlo]

there are several words ending in sporange but I have no idea how they are pronounced:

oosporange, macrosporange, microsporange, megasporange,
tetrasporange, trichosporange, zoosporange,
zygosporange

 

[MakeItSo]

With a little cheating & Santa's wonderful poem, you will find that it rhymes very nicely....when Kenny-translated:

"Fppmfffmpmfp mmmpmfpmf fmpmfpmpp pmfmppmpffmpppffpmmpppff mfmmmmpmfpmfppfppp ppfmpf ppfpffmmmpppmfmmpp,
Mff mpmmppmmfmffmpmmppmpm fmpppf pfmmmmmffpppfmp fmpmfpmpp pfffmffmmfmpffm mpmppfppfpff mfpmffpppmfmmpp."

"Mfpmffmpmmpp ffmppffmfpff mmfmfpmffpppmmm, pmmmppfppmpppmffmm, mmmpppmpm fmmmffpmffpmmpppff;
Mpfmmmmffpmfmffpppmfm fmpmfpmfffmm, mmpmmmmpm mfmfmfffmfmm fppmffpmfpmf pfmmffpmfmpfmpppff."

"Pffppffmmmppfmm mmmpffmpp pffmppmpm, fpmmffppfpmfmppfmpfmm mmmpffmpp pfmfmfpffpfmpmfmpp;
Mff pmfppffpmmpp fppmmmmpfmpfpmfmppfmm fppmfffmpmfp ppmmmmpfmpmfmpp fmmffmpffpfmpmfmpp."

(Paste this text into the kenny box and click "kennify")


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