B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 02, 2024

Why do rough & through not rhyme?

Well it doesn’t, because nothing does.

A cowboy whose cows were too puny

Told his sidekick, “I must be loony”

Although it was tough

I thought an acre was enough

But it turns out that they need some more range

Is there a word within a range

to rhyme with my orange?

According to Merriam Webster there’s like one word that nearly perfectly rhymes with orange: sporange (whatever that is) and a few half rhymes (like words that only kinda rhyme).

Storage and porridge are close enough.

‘Strange’ sorta does.

There is a good two word rhyme with orange.

Door hinge.

So the rusty orange door hinge needs more range.

This was really funny when it soaked in!

Eh me always is find Engleesh to be confoosing.

It no rhyme? Ha ha ha ha. You must be novice.

Orange on the range

…

Oh gives me a orange, where them fruits is no strange

Where the pomelos and the apples plays

Where seldoms is heards, a sour lemony words

And the skies is not cloudy all days.

Orange, orange on the range;

Where the airs is so pures and the citrus fruits so sweet

And the bananas so balmy and light

That me would no exchange my orange on the range

For all the fruits shiny and bright

Orange… Orange on the range!

It no rhymes me bear foots!

“Gorange”. Which is a family name mentioned in the Q.I. quiz show.

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=7CyHkdmMVcs

There are 9 words where "OUGH is spelled differently.

1 TOUGH (tuff) able to endure hardship or pain or a hard surface.

2 COUGH (coff) your body’s natural reflex to clear your airways of things like mucus and dust

3 PLOUGH (plow) A plough or plow (US; both /plaʊ/) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting.

4 DOUGH (doh) a thick, malleable mixture of flour and liquid, used for baking into bread or pastry.

5 FOUGHT (faut) the past tense and past participle of fight.

6 THROUGH (threw) moving in one side and out of the other side of (an opening, channel, or location).

7 Borough (burr roh) a town or district that is an administrative unit.

8 GOUGH (gowj) to make a hole or dent in something, or to swindle or steal by overcharging.

9 LOUGH (loch) Loch is a word meaning “lake” or “sea inlet” in Scottish and Irish, subsequently borrowed into English. In Irish contexts, it often appears in the anglicized form “lough”.

I feel obligated to comment.

Sporange….

That’s another comic strip.

and don’t get us started on words that sound the same but are spelled differently…

Good one. But I had to think about it.

Well, as it turns out there are actually two words that rhyme with the word orange: sporange, which is apparently a technical word for a spore sac, and Blorenge, a mountain in Wales. Thank you Google.

Punctuation marks often help a lot.

She didn’t notice there weren’t quotes around “nothing”.

I thought the name game song worked with anything.

And someone else could have said “that’s true” and you wouldn’t know who he was talking to.

Some words do, if you remember the “G” in “orange” was originally silent.

Showing she’s not a dumb blonde…

I think the coach missed a golden opportunity,

Because English spelling is daft. The word ‘ghoti’ can actually be pronounced as ‘fish’ due to some of the ‘rules’ involved in spelling. See if you can work out how come. I suspect some of you already know this one.

My Spanish is badly neglected, but I sure love how we can know how any word is pronounced when we see it written.

An orange isn’t orange because it’s orange. Orange is orange because of the fruit.

Spellings hang on for centuries. Pronunciations, though, change much more rapidly (comparatively) due to laziness of the speech apparatus.

I’m confused. Orange you?

English language `is confusing!!!!!!!………ya’ll………

DOIEEEEEE!

If you think language is confusing, wait till you are in a relationship with a woman.

Nothing rhymes with ‘nothing’. Except maybe ‘cussing’ and ‘fussing’ said with a lisp.

I…don’t…get…it.

Door hinge.

Well, just make up a word to rhyme, like Monty Python did with “Splunge” (“Yeah, Splunge for me too!”), and the actual word “Blancmange” (Pronounced “Bla-monge”; “They mean to win Wimbledon!”)…

The challenge of eons. Here’s another. Find the point where pi repeats the same digit consecutively.

Granddaughter came up with orange and porridge. Close.

A hill in Wales is called the Blorenge.

TRY SPORANGE-LOOK IT UP!

Another word nothing rhymes with: rutabaga

I haven’t seen anything in B.C. this LOL funny in ages.

“Oranges, poranges, who cares?” sang Witchypoo.

Would a melange of oranges kind of rhyme?

Did you ever see the I Love Lucy show where Ricky was reading a children’s book and the words were all spelled alike except the first letter but they all sounded different.

Good one-took me a second.

Syringe?

Look at all the people….Dressed in pink and purple….They all squirm and cringe….When joined by orange.

Flange. You’re welcome.

There something that rhymes with orange, I don’t feel the need to reveal it here. Read my book, if I ever finish it.

“Door hinge”

He realized he could have worded that better.

“Meihem in ce Klasrum” by Dolton Edwards (very short story; 1946)

https://www.angelfire.Com/va3/timshenk/codes/

http://ncf.idallen[dot]com/

Somebody has to reference it!

Try this: πορτοκάλι . It’s Greek to me.

And why do YOU and EWE rhyme?

Roses are red, violets are blue, some poems rhyme, others don’t.

To rhyme with orange you have to break porringer over two lines.

Melange, Blamange … ?

Let’s think of English as a sort of secret language, and when people who learn it as a second language, and understand all these pronunciation anomalies, they can join the club.

That’s not what he meant…….

Dictionary dot com says “silver hangs on to the same rumor, it actually rhymes with Wilver (a nickname) and chilver (a ewe lamb).” It names “bulb”, “angel”, and “month” as rhymeless.

It’s the stone age, you can just make up a new word to rhyme with orange, or use a different word for orange. Also, at that type there were no specific word for the colour orange, so you could use the word yellow-red and put the issue to bed, or the alternative red-yellow like a mellow fellow.