# What Rhymes with Orange? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 29, 1999, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452 "1999-10-29T19:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/21 "1999-10-30T08:00:00Z")
Which proves that, if a thread starts out horrible, it can still get verse. . .and verse. . .and never _ **re** _verse. Ray (badder and really threadbare) ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/22 "1999-10-30T20:46:00Z")
Quote: That’s very similar to an old Ogden Nash poem (which I do not totally remember): Old indeed but not by the illustrious Mr. Nash: A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican, He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I’m damned if I see how the helican. By Dixon Lanier Merritt 1916 * * * JB Lex Non Favet Delictorum Votis ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/23 "1999-10-30T22:37:00Z")
“Whore-binge”. ---
**Author:** ![Jorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorge)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 1999, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/24 "1999-10-31T05:00:00Z")
OK, if you must know… **Falange**. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 1999, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/25 "1999-10-31T17:43:00Z")
Tom Lehrer provided the first satisfactory answer to this question when he wrote Eating an orange While making love Makes for a bizarre enj- Oyment thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 1999, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/26 "1999-11-01T02:53:00Z")
Let’s tie this into two other threads Barney Ruble jobs one (he was a lyricist): Fred: OK let me think of a line. How about "My mother’s hair was orange and then it turned to silver. OK Barney you think of a lot of words to rhyme with orange and silver. (the jist is they say orange and silver are the only words in the English language that have no rhymes. Untrue there are many, many others) Tie in to the Puff ‘n’ Stuff thread: Witchy Poo: Oranges pornges who cares? Oranges pornges who cares? Oranages pornges who cares? Ain’t no word to rhyme with oranages. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 1999, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/27 "1999-11-01T03:41:00Z")
What about **sporrans**? That kind of almost nearly rhymes, if you squint a bit with your head tilted. * * * “Vyvyan! Where did you get that Howitzer?” “…I found it.” [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - updates every Wed & Sat ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 1999, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/28 "1999-11-01T03:45:00Z")
Of course, you can always reply in another language: I want to eat the orange Je voudrais manger l’orange. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 1999, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/29 "1999-11-01T15:17:00Z")
Sorry, that doesn’t work. In English, the word “orange” is pronounced “OR-inge.” In French, it’s pronounced, “aw-RAHNZH.” * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 1999, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/30 "1999-11-01T16:38:00Z")
Well, yeah, Chef, but he doesn’t need to know that. ---
**Author:** ![Waneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@Waneman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waneman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 1999, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/31 "1999-11-03T19:15:00Z")
Do something good for the world. Create a word that rhymes with orange then define it. Example: The bereavement over lost data from a hard disk crash. This might be called “mornge” ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/32 "1999-11-03T23:39:00Z")
While we’re on the subject…isn’t there another word, besides hungry and angry, that ends in GRY? 😃 (minxsmom now quickly ducking under her desk before the flame throwers get her) * * * **WARNING:** I cannot be held responsible for the above as apparently my cat has learned to type. =^…^= ---
**Author:** ![Timothy\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Timothy\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timothy_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452/33 "1999-11-04T01:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > While we’re on the subject…isn’t there another word, besides hungry and angry, that ends in GRY? Gryphon. It’s a legendary beast, you see, and very dangerous. Thus… **\“Look out for the gry–”\** And thus, somebody ends with “gry”. * * * [Afraid to fly](http://users.aol.com/psoftinfo/info_ff.htm)? Hey, I’ve _been_ there! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-rhymes-with-orange/4452.md?page=1)