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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

60.0. "Difficult Rhymes" by REGINA::LYNX () Sun Mar 10 1985 22:32

There are a number of words in English which are hard to rhyme.
Attempts to get rhymes for such words usually result in curious or absurd
constructs.  I present herewith a list of such words.  After a few replies
appear, I'll give some of the examples of forced rhyming that appear in
the reference work I'm using.  (That work is "Oddities and Curiosities of
words and literature" by C. C. Bomabaugh, Dover, 1961.)

	month
	chimney
	liquid
	carpet
	window
	garden
	lemon
	orange	(is there an anti-citrus conspiracy in English?)
	widow
	gulf

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
60.1		AKOV68::BOYAJIAN		`Sun Mar 10 1985 23:29`	11
	One of my favorite forced rhymes (aside from some of Tom Lehrer's --- he was a master of strange rhymes) is from "Take Me to the Fair", from CAMELOT. Guinivere sings: "And when I choose whom I [1mprefer go[m\ I'll pick the strongest knight I know. And young Du Lac seems strongest [1mergo[m\ He should take me to the next Town Fair." --- jerry
60.2		DVINCI::MPALMER		`Tue Mar 19 1985 16:39`	4
	hmn, i remember "orange" being forced to "door hinge" and "porridge" "porridge" seems to rhyme if you're nasally congested. how about "silver"?
60.3		SUPER::MATTHEWS		`Wed Mar 20 1985 12:03`	1
	"Garden" rhymes just fine with "pardon" and "harden," doesn't it?
60.4		REGINA::AUGERI		`Fri May 10 1985 09:43`	5
	RE: .0 Where are those examples Bob? Mike
60.5		PAOIS::HILL	An immigrant in Paris	`Mon Aug 24 1992 04:55`	10
	There's apparently a hill in Wales whose name rhymes with 'orange'. Of course I cannot remember the name, except it starts with a B. Oh yes! and it rhymes with orange. Now then you wizards... What rhymes with pint? Nick
60.6		ULYSSE::WADE		`Mon Aug 24 1992 06:12`	6
	>> What rhymes with pint? `Mount' - as said by a member of the [UK] "Royal" Family. As in "Let me mint upon your shoulders, Financial Adviser!", cried the Duchess of York.
60.7		PASTIS::MONAHAN	humanity is a trojan horse	`Mon Aug 24 1992 06:20`	2
	Oi might of 'it 'im, guv', but then Oi migh'n't. Lesee yer evidence. ---------
60.8	Enter the pedant	PAOIS::HILL	An immigrant in Paris	`Thu Aug 27 1992 03:35`	4
	Yes, they rhyme with 'pint', but what about a word which doesn't need to have its pronunciation distorted? Nick