Rhymes with "orange"

[Wilson Gray]

Oh, all right. I've finally figured out your point, dInIs. ;-) Mea culpa.
I'm in no sense a keyboardist and, with my vision impaired by glaucoma, I'm
surprised that I don't make even more such mistakes. Using a typeface with
serifs is easier for _me_ to read, but I'm not sure that others could read
it, given that no one else uses serif. I figure that there must be a reason
for such non-use. Maybe bumping up the typeface a size will do the trick.
Otherwise, I'll simply be forced to rely upon the kindness of friends. :-)

-Wilson

On 5/2/06, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson,
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> Are you sure this is not
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> [kyIv@]
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> and
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> [sI at v@]
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> ?
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> dInIs
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> >As I mentioned recently, in BE
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> >Old folk don't call cover 'kivver"
> >And the Lone Ranger don't call his white horse "Silver."
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> >"kivver" and "Silver" rhyme, i.e. as [ki at v@] and [si at v@].
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> >-Wilson
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> >On 5/1/06, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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> >>         For orange, at least, there's a classic nursery rhyme:
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> >>What is the rhyme for porringer?
> >>What is the rhyme for porringer?
> >>The king he had a daughter fair
> >>And gave the Prince of Orange her.
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> >>         It doesn't sound right to me to rhyme a word with itself, even
> >>if it's preceded with a prefix, such as quicksilver.  Silver, however,
> >>does have a rhyme:  chilver, a provincial English term meaning a
> >>ewe-lamb or one-year-old ewe, or ewe mutton (according to the Century
> >>Dictionary).
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> >>         In addition to orange and silver, purple is a third color that
> >>is traditionally considered unrhymable, but Louis Sachar came up with
> >>this clever rhyme in Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger:
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> >>The baby won't stop crying.
> >>His face is turning purple.
> >>Will anything make him feel better?
> >>I bet a burp'll.
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> >>
> >>John Baker
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