# Purple & Orange, any other words without rhymes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685 "2005-02-06T19:32:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LookingAround](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@LookingAround](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LookingAround)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/21 "2005-02-07T01:10:28Z")
Ask Marilyn in todays Sunday’s Parade (A paper inserted magazine) had a similar question, What do these words have in common orange, month, purple and silver? Her answer was “No other English words rhyme perfectly with them” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/22 "2005-02-07T01:28:48Z")
orange: door hinge (especially if you’re Cockney). ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/23 "2005-02-07T02:59:51Z")
I never understood this poem, until I started considering that it might not be meant for an Indiana dialect: There was a little girl who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead And when she was good she was very very good And when she was bad she was horrid So, the dialectics are definitely something to consider… ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/24 "2005-02-07T03:21:17Z")
I still don’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/25 "2005-02-07T03:25:29Z")
In some British dialects, “forehead” and “horrid” rhyme. Forrid, horrid. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/26 "2005-02-07T04:38:19Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I never understood this poem, until I started considering that it might not be meant for an Indiana dialect: > > There was a little girl who had a little curl > Right in the middle of her forehead > And when she was good she was very very good > And when she was bad she was horrid > > So, the dialectics are definitely something to consider… I’m from the Midwest America and this poem always made sense to me… “for-hed” “hor-ed” No? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/27 "2005-02-07T04:55:20Z")
“Feldspar,” said Nott. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/28 "2005-02-07T06:05:53Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Sitar. 😛 gih-TAR SEE-tar nope. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/29 "2005-02-07T06:48:39Z")
Louis Sachar comes up with a good forced rhyme for purple, I think in _Sideways Stories from Wayside School_. It goes something like this: The baby’s face is turning purple Will anything soothe him? I bet a burp’ll ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/30 "2005-02-07T06:53:48Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > gih-TAR > SEE-tar > > nope. I’ve heard _guitar_ pronounced as GEE-tar, particularly in the Southern US. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/31 "2005-02-07T07:43:15Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > gih-TAR > SEE-tar > > nope. gih-Tar sih-Tar yep. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/32 "2005-02-07T11:06:35Z")
Pint Ninth ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/33 "2005-02-07T12:23:34Z")
No one Mentioned that new M&M Comercial. Some actress (I think from Will and Grace) Goes through all the colors and rhymes them in song. The M&M “men” are there with her, and participate in the song. She gets to orange, and pauses… “Wait nothing Rhymes with Orange” to this the Orange M&M man asks “I still get paid, Right?” ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/34 "2005-02-07T13:14:13Z")
Four eng- ineers wear orange brassieres. –Willard Espy (I think) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/35 "2005-02-07T13:39:40Z")
More Espy: How many moons in the full month? Four, as the swift river run’th. To find a rhyme for silver Merely takes will, ver- bosity and cleverness. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/36 "2005-02-07T15:16:11Z")
I heard it as: To find a rhyme for “silver,” Or any rhymeless rhyme, Requires only will, ver- bosity, and time. And one that I’m sure I’m not remembering quite right: “Can you,” said Tom to Lisping Bill, “Find any rhyme for ‘month’?” “Of course I can,” said Lisping Bill, “I’ll find a rhyme at onth!” (see, he lisped the word “once”…oh well, I tried.) ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/37 "2005-02-07T16:18:35Z")
There was a book, I believe by Jack Chalker, that had an island where there was a prophet who spoke only in rhymes. He had an assistant, named Milver Surple, “just in case”. ---
**Author:** ![Wrenchslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/94ad74/32.png) [@Wrenchslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenchslinger)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/38 "2005-02-07T18:38:36Z")
I suppose the truly deperate poet could always mention my frined angie. We like to call her “ange”. wrenchslinger ---
**Author:** ![Asteroide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@Asteroide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asteroide)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/39 "2005-02-07T20:02:42Z")
Orange schmorange ! How about _patient_? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/40 "2005-02-07T21:08:58Z")
> [@Asteroide](#): > > Orange schmorange ! > > How about _patient_? Abortifacient. (A tricky one to slip into a song, though) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685.md?page=3)