# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/102 "2011-09-15T21:56:26Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I was taught in school (all the way through 12th grade) that the sole requirement for words to rhyme was for them to have the last syllable pronounced the same. Thus, people and purple are rhymes. So are lozenge and orange. Almost. Not the last syllable, but the last accented vowel and all that follows it. So people rhymes with steeple, but not purple. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/103 "2011-09-15T22:36:32Z")
The Netherlands get bigger now and then, but the rest of **Yurp’ll** be the same size next year. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/104 "2011-09-15T22:44:45Z")
> [@Antonius\_Block](#): > > Gotchaya, gotchaya! > Fine poet Colophon > Might use a word from the > SDMB > > Right [at the page top](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=300970&page=2) there’s > “Australopithecus” > – Hexasyllabic and > Fits to a T! Higamus, hogamus, Clever Antonius Comes and plays Colophon At his own game. Writing or reading, Now where is this leading? Come on then, everyone - Let’s do the same! ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/105 "2011-09-16T08:25:57Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Higamus, hogamus, > Clever Antonius > Comes and plays Colophon > At his own game. > > Writing or reading, > Now where is this leading? > Come on then, everyone - > Let’s do the same! Piggoty poggoty O **Malacandra** , we’re Helping these zombies come Back from the Dead My chief concern is that [Sesquipedalian](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sesquipedalian) [Dactyls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl) are possibly Killing the thread. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/106 "2011-09-16T09:26:13Z")
> [@Antonius\_Block](#): > > Piggoty poggoty > O **Malacandra** , we’re > Helping these zombies come > Back from the Dead > > My chief concern is that > [Sesquipedalian](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sesquipedalian) > [Dactyls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl) are possibly > Killing the thread. ☹ Zimbity zombity Thread resurrection is often considered to be a faux pas But this example has reanimatedly proved the exception by raising the bar 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/107 "2011-09-16T14:00:56Z")
The word, chimney, has no perfect rhyme as far as I know. I suppose you could claim it rhymes with Bimini, but that requires pronouncing it Bimney. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/108 "2011-09-16T20:36:56Z")
^^ **CC** , since you’re clearly allowing place names, then [Rhymney](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymney) in Wales is a perfect rhyme for _chimney_. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/109 "2011-09-16T22:09:12Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Zimbity zombity > Thread resurrection is > often considered to > be a faux pas > > But this example has > reanimatedly > proved the exception by > raising the bar 🙂 Caliphy colophy **Colphon** ’s poetry livens up threads like this one that we’re in. Having just him, though, is anticompetitive. Get off your duffs now and go for the win! (No offense meant to Malacandra and Antonius Block - I just couldn’t work you all into one poem) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/110 "2011-09-17T07:54:37Z")
Walloping wombats, now Gary’s got in on it - How is a man to keep Up with this sh\*t? Saturday morning, and No inspiration, I Can’t think of metre or Rhyming or wit. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/111 "2011-09-17T16:45:11Z")
> [@Antonius\_Block](#): > > ^^ **CC** , since you’re clearly allowing place names, then [Rhymney](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymney) in Wales is a perfect rhyme for _chimney_. Pedantry podantry Names of Welsh villages to an outsider can often cause strife Though it’s spelled “Rhymney”, some idiosyncracy means you say “[Rhumney](http://www.places2b.co.uk/place10848/rhymney.html)” in- stead, but that’s life! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/112 "2011-09-17T19:41:40Z")
“Rimney” or “Rumney”, I just couldn’t tell you, a native Welsh-speaker is not what I be: “Cardiff” is easy; I’ll hazard “Pwllheli”; but “Llan-something-gogogoch” 's too hard for me! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685/113 "2011-09-18T23:22:48Z")
If you’d care to turn this little poetry competition into some REAL flyting, please see the [new contest](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14268149). I picked limericks to start out because they’re easy. If it works well, we can move on to double dactyls, haiku, iambic pentameter, and sonnets. Sonnet slam, anyone? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/purple-orange-any-other-words-without-rhymes/288685.md?page=5)