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Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:00 pm
by an seanduine
Or arn'tcha know?
Not entirely successful, but it sorta scans.

Bob

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:37 pm
by Nanohedron
Uhhh...what?

Anyway, everyone knows that "orange" rhymes with "door hinge". Sort of.

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:06 am
by fatmac
Don't know
Orange-O
But possiblo

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:02 am
by benhall.1
A South Welsh sheep: Blorenge yowe.

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 2:09 am
by DrPhill

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:20 pm
by Tommy
sporangia rhymes with orange.

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:57 pm
by Nanohedron
Tommy ate at every meal
Strained carrots from a porringer,
And as more carrots he did eat,
The more his skin grew oranger.

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 12:04 am
by irishmuse
Since we're in the poststructural pub Glenmorangie rhymes with orangey if that's any use to you.

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 1:45 am
by benhall.1
irishmuse wrote:Since we're in the poststructural pub Glenmorangie rhymes with orangey if that's any use to you.
No it doesn't! Not unless you've got a really weird pronunciation of "orangey" ...

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:03 am
by Peter Duggan
benhall.1 wrote:unless you've got a really weird pronunciation of "orangey" ...
Or a really weird pronunciation of 'Glenmorangie', Ben!

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:02 am
by irishmuse
Cue Glasgow King's Theatre pantomime audience: "Oh yes,it does! I'm a mild-mannered chap by nature, but this one was a staple of Glasgow pub arguments for decades. So I'll pick up the gauntlet.

Here's Murdock's Pub on the subject, phonetic alphabet and all to assist our EEC cousins:
https://www.murdocks.de/en/whiskey/scot ... -original/

Here's Brian Cox on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ZwgGB1Lr4
Remember he was Argyll in Braveheart and Hannibal Lecter in the original Manhunter. He'd eat your liver with FAva beans not faVA beans if you corrected his pronunciation.

Here's the final proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twie6xsbWPg
Correct their pronunciation and you'd get the bum's rush from the bar with or without your head attached.

Anyway, it's all good fun. No offence meant and none taken. Let's have a round of GlenMOrangies. The Milky Bars are On me! Stop the bus barman, mine tastes orangey!

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:00 am
by benhall.1
Peter Duggan wrote:
benhall.1 wrote:unless you've got a really weird pronunciation of "orangey" ...
Or a really weird pronunciation of 'Glenmorangie', Ben!
True. Strangely, that possibility hadn't occurred to me!

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 12:09 pm
by Nanohedron
benhall.1 wrote:
Peter Duggan wrote:
benhall.1 wrote:unless you've got a really weird pronunciation of "orangey" ...
Or a really weird pronunciation of 'Glenmorangie', Ben!
True. Strangely, that possibility hadn't occurred to me!
Don't ask for Glenmorangie in my patch, then, because we would correct your pronunciation and you'd blow a gasket. And we automatically pronounce "Elgin" as "Eljin", just to warn you in advance. Glasgow often rhymes with "cow", and Edinburgh? You can probably guess already.

Sigh. The Scots make everything so difficult. :wink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 12:58 pm
by Peter Duggan
Nanohedron wrote:Sigh. The Scots make everything so difficult. :wink:
Hope you've got 'Errogie' right or you'll be on the Road to Nowhere! :o

(I've heard it wrong more often than right on the Internet...)

Re: Rhymes with Orange-O

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 1:14 pm
by Nanohedron
No worries there; I already heard "Errogie" from a native, but even if I hadn't, that one would be intuitive for me. Milngavie being pronounced "Mill-guy", however, is totally not.

If anyone should have problems with "Errogie", then the Gaelic spelling of Earaghaidh ought to clear everything up. :wink: