Nothing rhymes with 'orange'

[SoupIsGood]

Can you believe it?!?! like WOW

[Blake]

uhhh.....nothing rhymes with antidisestablishmentarianism, either......

[SoupIsGood]

Originally Posted by Blake

uhhh.....nothing rhymes with antidisestablishmentarianism, either......

disestablishmentarianism does.....

[SpursStalker]

[mg06]

Oh the conundrum... scientists all over the world are puzzled by it.

[bonnington]

I was wandering on the ol ' range
while i was eating an orange

[boo_radley]

nope, different "a" sounds

[CLUVMANU]

Because ORANGE ROCKS!

[boo_radley]

lozenge

[SoupIsGood]

Originally Posted by boo_radley

lozenge

nope

it's impossible

[boo_radley]

Lozenge is actually a pararhyme with orange, I just read that. There's another word that nothing rhymes with and that's silver.

[SoupIsGood]

Originally Posted by boo_radley

Lozenge is actually a pararhyme with orange, I just read that. There's another word that nothing rhymes with and that's silver.

Yes I knew about silver but I like orange much better.

There is no perfect rhyme though. Who cares about pararhymes, they don't even sound like rhymes at all

[boo_radley]

Oxford cares enough to include them, is the great and powerful Soup more good than Oxford?

[bonnington]

Originally Posted by boo_radley

nope, different "a" sounds

I get it, I don't even know how pronounce good enough in English.

[SoupIsGood]

Originally Posted by boo_radley

Oxford cares enough to include them, is the great and powerful Soup more good than Oxford?

Hah, I didn't know what an Oxford was at first, had to google it.

Merriam-Webster is the way man

[boo_radley]

Originally Posted by bonnington

I get it, I don't even know how pronounce good enough in English.

when in doubt, think of the ugliest and most plain way to say a word and that's how we do it.

[bonnington]

Originally Posted by boo_radley

when in doubt, think of the ugliest and most plain way to say a word and that's how we do it.

[Spurfan15]

Roarnge.

[ladyspur]

thread

[boo_radley]

“Oranges, poranges,
Who says?
Oranges, poranges,
Who says?
Oranges, poranges,
Who says?
There ain't no rhyme for oranges!”


Rhyme
Orange is notable as one of the most common words in English that does not rhyme with any other word. The closest "real" approximation is door-hinge, although torn hinge, or inch, a wrench, and flange have also been suggested.

Some made-up words have rhymed with orange:

grorange — a blend of green and the color orange (found in a Mario Brothers novel)
korange — a hypothetical hybrid of the orange and the kumquat
borange — "rubbish", "of poor quality" (a coinage of comedian Ross Noble on the Triple J Ross & Terri show).
atgrynge — the plural of "atgry" , an alternative name for the commercial at symbol (@) .
yorange — a sniglet refering to the white threads on a peeled Orange


Tom Lehrer once rhymed "orange" in the verse:

Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
oyment thereof.

This is an example of extreme enjambement and the New York-New Jersey accent's way of pronouncing orange as "ar-ange."

Similar was Willard Espy's poem, "The Unrhymable Word: Orange":

The four eng-
ineers
Wore orange
brassieres.

The name of US Naval Commander H. H. Gorringe, the captain of the USS Gettysburg who discovered Gorringe Ridge in 1875, also somewhat rhymes with orange, which led Arthur Guiterman to quip in "Local Note":

In Sparkill buried lies that man of mark
Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park,
Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe,
Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for "orange."

The Flaming Lips included the following verse in their 1993 song "She Don't Use Jelly":

I know a girl who reminds me of Cher
She's always changing the color of her hair
She don't use nothing that ya buy at the store
She likes her hair to be real orange
She uses tangerines

In this case, the rhyme is achieved by slurring the last syllable of orange, emphasizing the rhyme of or- with store.

The rapper Eminem has partially rhymed "orange" in several songs:

In "Business":
Set to blow college dorm rooms doors off the hinges
oranges, peach, pears, plums, syringes

In "Cum on Everybody":
I got a wardrobe with an orange robe
I'm in the fourth row, signin' autographs before the show

In "Role Model":
Some people only see that I'm white, ignorin' skill
cause I stick out like a green hat with in orange bill

He has also creatively used the word in the songs "Big Weenie", "Brain Damage", "Get You Mad", "The Kids", and "Kill You".

A children's rhyme from Mother Goose features a rhyme with orange as part of a solution for another tricky word, porringer:

What is the rhyme for porringer?
The king he had a daughter fair
And give the Prince of Orange her.

In Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book, Christina Rossetti wrote What is Pink? which begins:

What is pink? a rose is pink
By the fountain's brink.
What is red? a poppy's red
In its barley bed.
It continues assigning colors to objects, and it ends with orange:

What is orange? why, an orange,
Just an orange!
This plays on the fact that oranges are orange, and that no "proper" rhyme exists.

In the computer game The Curse of Monkey Island the protagonist is annoyed by some pirates who keep making up rhymes to every sentence he says. He finally says to them "We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange", which forces them to relent.

It has been argued by certain individuals that the word "lozenge" is in fact a rhyme of orange.

from wikipedia