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Nope, but I speak Bunn-ay.

[QUOTE=Ravager]Nope, but I speak Bunn-ay.[/QUOTE]

Psh.

We all know Bunn-ay is a dead language.

It's an underground language, used by those will rise to face thir oppressers! :laugh:

[QUOTE=Damuna_Nova]If God's an SOB, who's his mother?[/QUOTE]Betty, the Ur-Bitch. I thought everyoone knew that.

the "daddy long legs" has the strongest venom known to man, it cannot use it however because it has not teeth.

It has "fangs" but it cant use them on humans as they are too small


PERFECTION!!

[QUOTE=Dragon Reborn]It has "fangs" but it cant use them on humans as they are too small


PERFECTION!![/QUOTE]

That last part...not good.

Lozenge and syringe both rhyme with orange.

The last stressed syllable and any that follow must be similar or identical for there to be a perfect or approximate rhyme.

The mute e sound in the last syllables of lozenge, syringe, & orange make it clear that they are not the last stressed syllable.
So while lozenge can be said to form an approximate rhyme with orange, syringe most definitely doesn't, since the [ai] sound in syringe is nothing similar to the [o] sound in orange.

American Heritage Dictionary

rhyme: n. 1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 2. A poem or poems having such correspondence. 3. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound.

dictionary.com

rhyme also rime
n.
Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.

A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
Poetry or verse of this kind.
A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.


Both agree it's the terminal sound, the last sound; nothing at all dealing with the last stressed syllable.

From AskOxford

Are there any words that rhyme with orange?

Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).

The principle of a half-rhyme in these cases is quite simple. Whereas a full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver (technically speaking, pararhymes) has obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.

This might help a bit too

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1103430

http://english.utb.edu/Dameron/courses/ ... ypage.html

@ Chim: I think rhyme is a bit too complex to catch in a dictionary entry and we have to go to the encyclopedias...

rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. With the decline of the classical quantitative meters and the substitution of accentual meters, rhyme began to develop, especially in the sacred Latin poetry of the early Christian church. In the Middle Ages, end rhyme (rhyme at the end of a line), assonance (repetition of related vowel sounds), and alliteration (repetition of consonants, particularly at the beginning of words) were predominant in vernacular verse. After 1300 rhyme came to be the outstanding metrical mark of poetry until the introduction of blank verse in the 16th cent. Alliteration and assonance were both called rhyme by early writers, but today two words are said to rhyme only when the sound of the final accented syllable of one word (placed usually at the end of a line of verse) agrees with the final accented syllable of another word so placed. When the vowels in the final accented syllables of the two rhyming words and the consonants (if any) succeeding the vowel have exactly the same sound, it is called perfect rhyme, e.g., shroud and cloud, mark and bark. Many poets, however, particularly 20th-century poets, use imperfect or approximate rhymes, in which the rhymed vowels and even the consonants might be similar but not identical, e.g., groaned and ground. Two words cannot rhyme unless both are accented on the same syllable. When rhymes are of one syllable or end in a consonant with no mute e following, as sad and bad, they are said to be a single or masculine rhyme. This type predominates in English verse because of the great number of monosyllabic words in the language. When rhymes are of two syllables or, more properly, when they are not accented on the last syllable or end in a final mute e (able and cable), they are said to be weak endings, or double, or feminine, rhymes. Feminine rhyme predominates in Spanish and Italian poetry, while German and French use masculine and feminine rhyme equally. Triple rhymes, or three-syllable rhymes, as cheerily and wearily, are less common, especially in serious verse. Rhymes of more than three syllables are rare. Some rhymes, as wind (noun) and kind, are called eye-rhymes (words which are spelled alike but not pronounced alike) and have come into general use through “poetic license.” Occasionally the initial words in a line may rhyme; more often there may be a rhyme within the line. Rhymes when used in a set pattern combine with other metrical elements to form such verse structures as the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and the heroic couplet.
from Columbia University Press via Answers.com

Rhyme

In the specific sense, a type of echoing which utilizes a correspondence of sound in the final accented vowels and all that follows of two or more words, but the preceding consonant sounds must differ, as in the words, bear and care. In a poetic sense, however, rhyme refers to a close similarity of sound as well as an exact correspondence; it includes the agreement of vowel sounds in assonance and the repetition of consonant sounds in consonance and alliteration. Usually, but not always, rhymes occur at the ends of lines.
from ilovepoetry via Answers.com

I respect how much in depth are willing to go to to find out if anything does, in fact rhyme with orange ,but why? I thought this thread was for useless facts. Those are boardering on useful.

^ Has a point.

Anyway, it's pointless facts, meaning even though it's pointless, it does have to be true.

Here ill restart us:

The first one-hundred digits of pie are: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307
816406286208998628034825342117067

Edit:himm.. the forum kinda did weird thigs to the numbers

Fact 1-

A Ninja going to see the Matrix is exactly like someone going to see a retarded bear at a circus.

Fact 2-

Life is like a chalupa at taco bell, Crusty on the outside and disappointing on the inside.

Fact 3-

Michael Jackson and Mickey Mouse have many things in common, they both where white gloves, both are good with chidren, and both are black with a white face.

Fact 4-

Antidisestablishmentarianism is not the longest word in the english dictionary.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniosis is.

the world is flat

The platypus is the worlds most (Perhaps only) venemous mammal.

You've never met my dad!!!

[QUOTE=Phreddie]The platypus is the worlds most (Perhaps only) venemous mammal.[/QUOTE]


Slow Loris

@ Shana. LMAO :laugh:

You've nevr met Shanas dad