Off topic: ultra thin pads & rhyme Thread poster: A Hayes (X)
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A Hayes (X)
Australia
Local time: 13:37
According to the adhesive strip on Libra invisible ultra thin pads, “No words in the English language rhyme with ‘month’, ‘orange’, ‘silver’, or ‘purple’.”
Can anyone disprove this?
abh
| | | | Yolande Haneder (X) 
Local time: 05:37
German to French
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Here what came to my mind:
Silver
Soldier
Orange
Change
Purple
Circle
Month
...I don't know yet, maybe you will find. Is ist my accent that makes these words rhyme together?
| | | | Yolande Haneder (X)
Local time: 05:37
German to French
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I have the last one:
Month= triumph
| | | | Giles Watson
Italy
Local time: 05:37
Italian to English
In memoriam | Purple rhymes | Nov 6, 2004 |
In the West of Scotland, "purple" can rhyme with "hirple" (= "limp"). Of course in the same part of the world, "girl" usually rhymes with "squirrel" ...
Cheers,
Giles
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DGK T-I
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:37
Georgian to English
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ABH wrote: According to the adhesive strip on Libra invisible ultra thin pads, “No words in the English language rhyme with ‘month’, ‘orange’, ‘silver’, or ‘purple’.” Can anyone disprove this? abh
orange - sporange
(for botanically inspired poets: a receptacle containing spores; a spore-case or capsule)
OED
although apparently pronounced spuh-RINJ, so it depends how you look at it
purple - curple
(crupper or leathern strap buckled to the back of the saddle and passing under the horse's tail, to prevent the saddle from slipping forwards.
Also rump or posterior, of a horse and possibly not just)
OED
(I like GW's 'hirple' as well
also OED)
silver - chilver
(A ewe-lamb: commonly chilver-lamb, found in OE., and still common in southern dialects.
OED
Glossary of farming terms
http://www.indigo2.co.uk/aiua/Farming%20Terms.pdf
and a few offerings in:
http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/oddities/words3.html
(again, depending on how you look at it, sometimes - I'm not sure I'm convinced by its suggestions for month.)
It's going to make an interesting poem, though.
I was toying with the idea of
month - and a gentle 'humph'
(after all, it's is in the OED - noun and verb)
'an expression of doubt or dissatisfaction. Also a name for this utterance.'
[Edited at 2004-11-06 22:35]
| | | | A Hayes (X)
Australia
Local time: 13:37
TOPIC STARTER | purple turtle... | Nov 7, 2004 |
nice ideas, everyone!
abh
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