# Rhyme Time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409 "2002-03-21T21:16:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![satanslawyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@satanslawyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satanslawyer)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409/1 "2002-03-21T21:16:27Z")

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Is there a word that rhymes with the word month?

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**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:** [March 22, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409/2 "2002-03-22T03:39:54Z")

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Not unless you get creative about it. For instance, after the nth object in a list, you have the (n+1)th, pronounced “enn plus wonth”.

Nor is the word “month” unique in not having an easy rhyme. Purple, silver, orange, pint, and hippopotomus are all similarly difficult, not that a good poet can’t come up with something.

Roses are red, violets are purple, sugar is sweet, and so is maple surple.

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**Author:** ![fbagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7c8e57/32.png) [@fbagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fbagner)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409/3 "2002-03-22T05:11:33Z")

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Month is a strange word…  
I think lisping could help here -  
“Once” would become wonth.

🙂

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**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409/4 "2002-03-22T13:05:44Z")

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Could you use “plynth” as consonance?

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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409/5 "2002-03-22T13:31:23Z")

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How about millionth, billionth, or trillionth?

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyme-time/99409/6 "2002-03-22T14:49:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Chronos \*  
> \*\*Roses are red, violets are purple, sugar is sweet, and so is maple surple. \*\*

Please cite Roger Miller!!