# Orange **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480 "2000-05-14T03:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![QirQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/848f3c/32.png) [@QirQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QirQ)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/1 "2000-05-14T03:27:47Z")
What English word rhymes with Orange?? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/2 "2000-05-14T03:36:44Z")
Silver. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/3 "2000-05-14T03:46:04Z")
I thought it was Bulgaria. ---
**Author:** ![GabbaGabbaHey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f14d63/32.png) [@GabbaGabbaHey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GabbaGabbaHey)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/4 "2000-05-14T03:58:05Z")
Porridge? Forrage? Close??? ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/5 "2000-05-14T04:18:36Z")
Frangipani - no, sorry, that’s not it, that’s the only word that rhymes with Indiana. What was I thinking? Oh, yes. Gorringe - Percy Gorringe - but how many poems can you write about a Wodehouse character and fresh fruit? ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/6 "2000-05-14T04:43:22Z")
Thus sprake aseymayo: > [@](#): > > Gorringe - Percy Gorringe - but how many poems can you write about a Wodehouse character and fresh fruit? Bertie Wooster went to eat At the home of Percy Gorringe. He made give Jeeves a treat Of an after-dinner Orange. Burma Shave. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/7 "2000-05-14T05:14:06Z")
Well, that’s one. Here’s another: There was a young fellow named Gorringe Who was strangely in love with an orange Jeeves came to the rescue And introduced him to fescue Now Percy’s as mad as a door-hinge. ---
**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/8 "2000-05-14T09:46:29Z")
Door hinge, though thats 2 words. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/9 "2000-05-14T10:26:18Z")
Minge. Oooooh! how rude! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/10 "2000-05-14T10:40:02Z")
To: QirQ From: Bosda Di’Chi Re: This Thread/ The Vile “Rhymes With Orange” Question/An Irish Curse On You & All Your House & Line. May the curse of Mary O’Meara & her 9, blind, starving, orphan children pursue your tattered soul over the hills & the rivers & the lakes & the streams until God Almighty Himself couldn’t find you with a radio telescope, a Giger counter, a team of trained bloodhounds, and a complete set of Shell Roadmaps (circa 1963). There. I feel **much** better now… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/11 "2000-05-14T16:58:56Z")
There is no English word that rhymes with orange, but that’s not so very unusual. There’s no English word that rhymes with purple either, ulesss you count maple surple. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange/19480/12 "2000-05-14T19:04:25Z")
Hmmm I think I saw this question at least three times before but no one says why they want it. [http://www.rhymezone.com/](http://www.rhymezone.com/)