Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > According to the rhyming dictionary the only word which rhymes with orange > is ..... orange. > But I knew that already. > Near rhymes would be door hinge, lozenge. > Where's Cole Porter when you need him? > According wordcourt.com, http://www.wordcourt.com/archives.php?show=2004-05-19 *Dan Warner, of Fraser, Mich., writes, ?Can you supply me with a word that rhymes with ?orange???* To answer your question, I got in touch with Hilary B. Price. As the cartoonist who draws the strip ?Rhymes With Orange,? she may be the world?s expert on this subject. Price told me, ?Marilyn vos Savant, who writes ?Ask Marilyn? for Parade magazine, claims there is a word ?sporange.? But the word is not in my dictionary.? ?Sporange? isn?t in most dictionaries. It does appear in Webster?s Third Unabridged and in the enormous Oxford English Dictionary, both of which say it?s a variant of ?sporangium,? a botanical term. Webster?s Third gives two pronunciations for ?sporange?: the one you?d expect and ?spuh-randj,? with the accent on the second syllable. ?Spuh-randj? is the only pronunciation given in Oxford. So although ?sporange? looks as if it rhymes with ?orange,? whether it really does is debatable. There is a hill in Wales called the Blorenge?but that?s a proper name, not an ordinary word. Hilary Price told me she didn?t know of any single rhyming word, either. ?As far as I?m concerned,? she said, ?the closest rhyme is ?door hinge.?? ------------------------------ > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > > > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:07:49 -0500 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] American Landscape > > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > > >> Three cheers for the green white and orange! > >> > >> (what rhymes with orange?) > >> > > > > sporange > > > > > >> > >> -------------------- > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> Photography > >> mark at rabinergroup.com > >> > >> > >>> From: Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> > >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:39:33 +0100 > >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] American Landscape > >>> > >>> > >>> Sonny Carter wrote > >>>>>>>>>> > >>> Here's a new one: > >>> http://sonc.com/look/?p=3 > >>> Here are earlier ones. > >>> http://www.sonc.com/american_landscape > >>> <<<<<<< > >>> > >>> You americans are blessed with an iconic flag, nice primary colours, > and > >> a > >>> penchant for displaying them in lambent light. We Irish get a muddy > light > >>> and secondary colours. Sometimes I get jealous.... > >>> > >>> Nice pic! > >>> > >>> Douglas > >>> _________ > >>> Douglas Barry > >>> Bray, Co. Wicklow > >>> Republic of Ireland > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Sonny > > http://sonc.com/look/ > > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > > > USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA