LL-L "Riddles" 2003.10.23 (06) [E]

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2003.10.23 (01) [E/S/French]

> Also on another aside as a bit of a puzzle for people
> - there are only two words in English ending in
> 'shion' - can anyone think what they are?
>
> Also can anyone think of a word rhyming with orange?

Fashion.
Cushion.
Suicide mishion (who cares for spelling at times like that?).

Doorhinge.
One more inch.
Forage, as pronounced by an Irishman.

Gabriele Kahn

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From: Brooks, Mark <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2003.10.23 (01) [E/S/French]

Gary wrote:
"Also can anyone think of a word rhyming with orange?"
Yes, that would be "forrange."  It's a hybrid word for those occasions when
you are at your "Home On The Range" and you go foraging for food ;-)
Mark

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Orthography"

> From: Gary Taylor <gary_taylor_98 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Orthography
>
> Also on another aside as a bit of a puzzle for people
> - there are only two words in English ending in
> 'shion' - can anyone think what they are?

Cushion and fashion. But in Scots I can also think of fushion and pushion.
Just goes to show that Scots isn't English, right  ;)

> Also can anyone think of a word rhyming with orange?

"The Blorenge" is a mountain in south Wales - one of the three peaks of
Abergavenny.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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From: burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2003.10.23 (01) [E/S/French]

> Another piece of trivia: did you know that "facetiously" is probably
> the
> only word (and certainly the shortest) in the English language that
> contains
> all vowels, including the "y", once each in alphabetic order?!
>
> Gabriele Kahn

And does anybody know a word with more consonants (in any
lowlandtongue) like our  Dutch word: angstschreeuw (8!).

Groetjes
luc vanbrabant
oekene

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