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Rhymes with Orange

#1 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:13 am

We need to invite this cartoonist to hang out here. We're only about ten yearsahead of her.

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Re: Rhymes with Orange

#2 Post by zachhoran1 » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:12 am

Jehan Shamsid-Deen's MDQ in November 2009 during the Tournament of Ten asked what the Blorenge(a rare example of a word rhyming with Orange, according to the text of the question) was
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Choices were Irish River, Scottish Forest, Welsh Mountain, or Australian Desert. She stopped and took her previously won $250K, but she would have said Welsh Mountain, which was the correct answer. Her stopping allowed Sam Murray to win the million(it was the Friday show of said week)

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Re: Rhymes with Orange

#3 Post by Pastor Fireball » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:45 am

zachhoran1 wrote:Jehan Shamsid-Deen's MDQ in November 2009 during the Tournament of Ten asked what the Blorenge(a rare example of a word rhyming with Orange, according to the text of the question) was
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Choices were Irish River, Scottish Forest, Welsh Mountain, or Australian Desert. She stopped and took her previously won $250K, but she would have said Welsh Mountain, which was the correct answer. Her stopping allowed Sam Murray to win the million(it was the Friday show of said week)
Since Blorenge is a place name, it technically isn't a "word" that rhymes with orange; however, the OED does give a semi-rhyming word for orange:
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sporange (pronounced "spuh-RANJ", not "SPOR-inj" as in "orange"), a somewhat obsolete synonym for "sporangium" (a small sac that produces or carries spores)
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