# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/41 "2005-02-07T21:38:19Z")
We all know blueberry syrup’ll Make your tongue turn purple ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/42 "2005-02-07T21:39:22Z")
There’s also the classic from _The Wizard of Oz_: “And if you met a hippopotomus?” “I’d knock him from top to bottomus!” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/43 "2005-02-07T21:39:38Z")
(Of course, that only works if you pronounce “syrup” with a Southern accent…) ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/44 "2005-02-07T22:24:15Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > guitar No need to go for an alternative pronounciation of sitar to find a rhyme. “Cigar” and “afar” are rhymes for guitar. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/45 "2005-02-07T22:30:56Z")
I think the following are close enough (but not as good as “door-hinge”!!) **Orange** - _Forage, Porridge_ **Orange** - _Poor Mensch_ ---
**Author:** ![meowpossum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@meowpossum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meowpossum)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/46 "2005-02-08T00:12:42Z")
I worked in the library in college and when it was slow, I’d browse the OED (the honking 20 volume set, not the measly 3 volume abridged edition.) I remember finding the word ‘porringe.’ IIRC, it’s a dialectal variant of ‘porridge’ or ‘potage’ and it’s related to ‘porringer,’ those useless little bowls everyone gives babies for christening gifts. Any road, it rhymed with ‘orange.’ ---
**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 8, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/47 "2005-02-08T19:24:15Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > gih-Tar > sih-Tar > > yep. :mad: Anyway… The name “Penelope” L-M-N-O-P! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/48 "2005-02-08T20:01:21Z")
Orange Whore-binge Sore cringe Back when Marvel Comics launched _Epic Illustrated,_ they had a contest to find a word that rhymed with “epic.” I forget who won; it sure wasn’t my entry, “instep-pick.” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/49 "2005-02-09T03:47:09Z")
Australopithecus? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/50 "2005-02-09T05:17:27Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > Australopithecus? Don’t be ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/51 "2005-02-09T10:22:33Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > Australopithecus? Easy. A creationists’s clerihew: God knows Australopithecus Was just a creature mythic. Us humans, made in Eden Is all that _Faith_ is needin’. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/52 "2005-02-09T12:43:12Z")
_Roses are red, violets are purple Sugar’s sweet and so is maple syrple._ - Roger Miller _When it rains in torrenges I like to eat oranges._ - Ogden Nash \*From Texarkana to El Paso, Dalhart down to Orange Every spot in Texas has got what you’re looking forrrrr Aren’cha glad that Texas put the stars up in the sky If heaven isn’t Texas, pardner, I don’t want to die \* - Hank Card for the Austin Lounge Lizards (One More Stupid Song About Texas) ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/53 "2005-02-09T13:14:18Z")
Thinking about this, in Ireland, you’d more than likely hear a word that rhymes with month. In fact, depending on the circles you move in and what your shockometer is set at; you’d could end up looking like this :eek: YMM, indeed V I ain’t writing it down here as it’s not a word I ever use, being such a polite and refined individual. 😛 Really, though, I’m not sure if I’d be breaking any Dopey rules for this forum, so I’ll give it a misss, if you don’t mind. However, I’m feeling a bit lyrical, so here’s a hint: \*Word that rhymes with month in Ireland \* by Me. It’s first is in church and also in chapel It’s second’s in rhubarb; but not in apple It’s third’s thrice in Shannon but never in Liffey The last letter’s t and the whole word’s quite iffy. I shall say no more; that’s quite enough from me today. ---
**Author:** ![Schnauzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@Schnauzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnauzer)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/54 "2005-02-09T13:22:43Z")
Lemon ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/55 "2005-02-09T13:36:08Z")
> [@Schnauzer](#): > > Lemon Denim Okay, not an exact rhyme, but then, a lot of these aren’t. Dammit, where are the specs for the English language. I must have them around here somewhere. Where’s that section that says that all words must have rhymes? It must be in there somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/56 "2005-02-10T08:24:15Z")
> [@Schnauzer](#): > > Lemon Yemen ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/57 "2005-02-14T22:13:24Z")
I just heard of this Burns snippet, which I just had to post here: > [@](#): > > I’d be mair vauntie o’ my hap, > Douce hingin owre my curple, > Than ony ermine ever lap, > Or proud imperial purple. OK, so it’s Scots, not English, but it’s still a perfect rhyme, in real poetry. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/58 "2005-02-15T00:28:20Z")
Its odd how many of these are colors: purple, orange, silver, even lemon. Maybe there was one guy who came up with the color names and he made them not rhyme just to spite us. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/59 "2005-02-15T00:45:53Z")
> [@Asteroide](#): > > Orange schmorange ! > > How about _patient_? quotient ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/60 "2005-02-15T02:57:50Z")
Quotient doesn’t work. A proper rhyme has to match from the vowel of the last stressed syllable to the end. Since “patient” and “quotient” are both stressed on the first syllable, they would have to agree on that syllable, which they don’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685.md?page=4)