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Thread #83814   Message #2872037
Posted By: beeliner
25-Mar-10 - 08:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
Subject: RE: BS: Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
1. Orange would normally take a feminine rhyme, so you need two syllables to rhyme.

2. Door hinge has a different vowel in the first syllable, plus the "h", so doesn't rhyme perfectly.


1. OK - see 2.

2. I pronounce or and door with exactly the same vowel, but you've got me on the 'h', unless, of course, the h is dropped as in some dialects.

Now, with regard to purple, may I submit 'burple', "the color of a belch".

Also, for those who remember the old 'Laugh-In" TV show, there was Fred Farkle's next-door neighbor, Ferd Ferple.