Rhymes with "orange"

[James Smith]

Sounds right to me!  Do I speak Singlish?
How many different ways is orange pronounced in the
"english-speaking" world? arnj, ornj, or-unj, ar-unj,
ar-inj, or-inj, ...?


--- "Landau, James" <James.Landau at NGC.COM> wrote:

...
>
> By the way, a friend of mine, currently in Singapore
> with the World
> Bank, confirms that "orange" and "syringe" rhyme in
> Singlish.
>
>     - Jim Landau
>
> "White people have no souls" - Baron Munchausen
>
>
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