BS: Rhyming words (not)

Subject: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: muppett
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 04:52 AM

According to the Chambers dictonary of rhyming words, there are 2 words that are used a lot on this site that don't rhyme with any others, the words are, BANJO and the other is AMERICAN. Can this be true, come on put your thinking caps on & see if you can come with some words.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: gnu
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 05:06 AM

My man Joe. Does that count ?

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: GUEST,weerover
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 05:18 AM

jerrican/jerrycan - both spellings in The Chambers Dictionary

wr

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 06:08 AM

Mr Chambers has said
He can think of nothing which rhymes with american
But if he uses his head
I'm pretty sure the hell he can.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 06:45 AM

"Hurricane" is close enough for folk.

So is "Pancho", I reckon.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: mack/misophist
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 09:41 AM

In order to assist those seeking an apt rhyme, please remember that the Japanese word for toilet is 'benjo'.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 09:54 AM

handjo(b)

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 01:25 PM

"the Japanese word for toilet is 'benjo'"

That could get confusing.

"Fangio" (the racing driver) is pretty close too.

And there's the Australian term "larrikin" which would serve in a limerick, for example.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: HuwG
Date: 28 Nov 03 - 02:51 PM

On the BBC quiz programme, "QI", last week, Stephen Fry asked the panel for a rhyme for "orange". One og the panel came back with, "dorange". He qualified that with, "That's a door hinge, in Cajun country".

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: fogie
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 05:33 AM

American Pelican
Banjo Fandango Fangio?
Sphygmomanometer?

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 06:34 AM

"Fandango" definitely wouldn't rhyme. Hard G.

And "oranges" rhymes with "porringers", while "orange" rhymes with the surname "Gorringe".

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 07:59 AM

To write a poem of a banjo,
One needs the help of an American.
But though one's prose turns purple,
It's hard to do better than Orange.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Raedwulf
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 05:48 PM

Orange, silver & purple are three common words in English that (allegedly) have no rhyming partner.

McGrath having having come up with (slightly dubious) rhymes for orange, I will point out that there is a place name in Shropshire (over the back of Long Mynd), Squilver. *Still* can't do you a one word rhyme for purple, though...

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 07:29 PM

those colors are tough! What about Mauve? Or Ochre? Or Violet?

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 08:09 PM

If I had no choice but to use any of those words in a rhyme, I'd rhyme them with themselves. Given a choice I would bury the word in a line and end with a different word.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: khandu
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 08:58 PM

Roger Miller rhymed "purple" with "Maple Syruple"

In the South, "silver" rhymes with "lilver" (liver)

k

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Raedwulf
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 09:06 PM

Ochre is easy - smoker, choker, just off the top my head. Mauve rhymes with cove, dove (as in dived, not the bird!), rove & wove. Can't do violet though. Hmmmm... Purple... violet... is it just me or is there a conspiracy going on?! ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: open mike
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 09:38 PM

buy mauve might sound like sound more like La Havre
with a short "A" sound which so8unds more like the
"o" in hot.

I shouldn't thi9nk it would be like a long "O"
nor would it rhyme with love,shove,or above...

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Hrothgar
Date: 29 Nov 03 - 10:41 PM

Bill,

Through the world I'll rove
To find a word like Mauve
And if some silly joker
Says it's really Ochre
I'll tell him where to pile it
Until his face turns Violet.

... Lucky I have a day job.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 04:37 PM

And of course we are faced with the eternal problem that words are pronounced differently depending where you come from.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 06:54 PM

As in duck a l'orange?

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Amos
Date: 30 Nov 03 - 07:36 PM

I am a constant fan,though,
Of guitar, harp and banjo,
And anyone who can show
Dexterity on any of these three instruments....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 06:09 PM

They all rhyme with assonance and consonance.

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 04:08 AM

There is a well established Scots word "hirple" which rhymes perfectly with "purple".

Also on the Scots (or Scotch )theme, although there is no rhyme for "orange" the adjective "orangey" rhymes perfectly with "Glenmorangie"

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 04:13 AM

For those unfamiliar with the Scots tongue I should perhaps explain that "hirple" means to hobble slowly, it describes the gait of an aged arthritic, infirm person

Over the hill my granny did hirple
Her dress was red and her hat was purple

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 06:54 AM

Mousethief rhyming on orange That whole thread is devoted to that theme)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 01:19 PM

LOL! I'd forgotten that sly Mousethief rhyme!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Rhyming words (not)
From: GUEST,Wa Ba Zhou
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 01:52 PM

I don't know about silver, orange and purple, but I know you can't rhyme "cherish" with "mujeres" as I heard in a song when I was doing radio in Olympia Washington several years ago
Wa Ban Zhou