Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

Padraic Brown wrote:
> >Another bad one is "orange". We solved that one in
>
> What was so hard about it?  I can think of grange, range, arrange,
> derange, mange; cringe, syringe, singe, hinge etc. right off hand.
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.

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