Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 25, 1999, 2:08 |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Padraic Brown wrote:
>> >Another bad one is "orange". We solved that one in
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>> What was so hard about it? I can think of grange, range, arrange,
>> derange, mange; cringe, syringe, singe, hinge etc. right off hand.
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>Hunh? None of those rhyme in my dialect. "Orange" is /orndZ/, while
>those words end in /ejndZ/ or /IndZ/, no connection with /orndZ/ since
>rhyme includes the vowel.
I'd still consider it a rhyme. At least a half rhyme (I believe that
was the technical term). So long as the final consonants are the
same, you have a fairly decent rhyme; if the vowel prceeding is the
same, so much the better.
Thus, hat rhymes with cat; quit half rhymes and rutabega not at all.
These are not in any way Official Rules of Rhyming; but that's how
I've figured them to work.
Padraic.