h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This should probably go in the 'Oranges' thread, but if anyone can find a word in the English language that rhymes with the word 'orange', please say so!

And as a side-note, to make sure nobody takes the subject title seriously, and assumes that I made a blatant mistake, I know the word 'anything' doesn't rhyme with 'orange'

Thanks!

Caper Plip

morange .... say the ge silent

But it doesn't strictly rhyme if the -ge is silent...

I thought 'lozenge' rhymed... but apparently it doesn't...

Orange rymes with the following:

binge, dinge, hinge, cringe, fringe, springe, singe, tinge, whinge, swinge, twinge, unhinge, syringe, scavenge

you forgot flange


Incog.

Ah, but 'flange' is only half rhyme, or visual rhyme - it scans well on the page because of the ending but when spoken it doesn't quite work.

whore mange

This all depends on our accent, doesn't it? I remember this bit in 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood where the protagonist says something to the effect of 'A chair is something you sit on. It is also the first syllable in the word 'charity'.' And I was thinking - no it's not, my friend... but then I'm not an American like Offred.

Apart from all the -inge words mentioned aboved, which definitely rhyme in my pronunciation, there is apparently a word "sporange"

You can always throw an orange flange though.

Incog.

Orange is like purple - no real rhymes in the English language.

That point where the gravity between the Moon and Earth cancels each other out. the LaGrange point. Does that rhyme?

Linda - all those -inge endings, as a couple of us said above, rhyme in our pronunciation.
Sporange - anglicisation of the technical term 'sporangium' a structure in which spores are produced.

I was painting the door and the door hinge
I've decided to paint them both orange

It works in my accent!



He was painting the seabirds bright purple
and he charged people 20p per gull

A lauerate! My new path in life

Ah, but if you use a little French (breaking the rules, I know... but...), it sort of works...

In my house a piece of furniture is purple,
But in France they would say 'le violet meuble'.

Well, it almost works!

Still half-rhyme with the purple, though. It has to end in the syllable 'pul' to work.

Gerbil - if the -bil is pronounced -bul... but that isn't right either...

I've just had a look in mt rhyming dictionary and there are loads for purple mostly things that end with ble e.g scrabble

Try rhyming with silver.

Strange, I thought orange rhymed with strange.

Silver.....saliver;builder;Matilda;lever;whenever;ever;liver;whatever.