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my sources say there is no word in the english launguage that does. can someone think of a famous person, place, or common word from another launguage?

2006-12-14 15:41:58 · 16 answers · asked by whatifitoldyou i was a ninja? 2 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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according to the www, there is no word that rhymes with month (or silver, purple, and orange)...
sorry, maybe you could take poetic license and rhyme it just using the 'th'?
good luck!

2006-12-14 18:26:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

First, in response to blackcurry --besides the words that just end with the WORD "month" itself.... the fact that a word ends with the letters "onth" (as in "millionth") does not mean those letters are PRONOUNCED the same way, which is what a rhyme requires. In fact, the "o" in those word is 'swallowed', it is not the /uh/ sound found in "month". (Related to this the "onth" part of these words is not the ACCENTED syllalble, and good rhyming requires that the same syllable be accented.)

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As many have suggested, there is no "PERECT rhyme" tor this word ("perfect rhyme" requires that EVERY sound from the vowel of the accented syllable to the end of the word be IDENTICAL)
http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/P0188300.html

But very often we can do just fine with a "near rhyme", in which MOST of these sounds match. In this case, I would look first to word that end with the sound /un(C)s/ -- the C standing for some consonant. /un/ matches the "on" in month; the final /s/ is a fairly close to /th/

Here are my best bets (note that all might rhyme better with the plural "months", and most would work about as well dropping the s [where that's possible]):

bunts, blunts, dunce, fronts, grunts, hunts, once, punts, runts, shunts, stunts
(hint: say these with a lisp -- e.g., "onth upon a time"-- and they ALL will be perfect rhymes!)

Also note that "months" is, in many dialects very nearly pronounced like /munts/ anyway, so these words work very well.

bunks, clunks, chunks, dunks, drunks, funks, flunks, hunks, junks, monks, punks, plunks, skunks, thunks, trunks

OR, very close, with 'm' instead of 'n' --
bumps, chumps, dumps, frumps, gazumps, grumps, humps, jumps, lumps, mumps, numps, pumps, plumps, rumps, sumps, slumps, stumps, tumps, thumps, trumps, umps, whumps

AND some of my favorites:
humph (humpf), harrumph, flumpf, galumph

2006-12-14 23:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0 0

I have study that that note between some others is between the in elementary words words in english that doesn't have a note that rymes with it. same for silver, orange, and red. yet you should nonetheless try

2016-11-30 19:23:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

billionth
centillionth
decillionth
holimonth
millionth
nonillionth
octillionth
quadrillionth
quintillionth
septillionth
sextillionth
trillionth
twelvemonth
zillionth

2006-12-14 15:47:21 · answer #4 · answered by Z 4 · 0 0

I'm drawing a blank here....I went through the whole alphabet and nothing matches up exactly.

2006-12-14 15:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by chris_in_columbia 2 · 0 1

It is correct. There are more words that do not have other words that rhme with them: orange, silver or purple

2006-12-14 15:44:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well here's one in English- done

2006-12-14 15:43:50 · answer #7 · answered by mandie 4 · 0 1

Wow, surprisingly, I don't think there is one. Why do you need it for a poem or something?

2006-12-14 15:48:34 · answer #8 · answered by Master Chief 3 · 0 0

well if you were to ask eminem he's have a whole list, the word slump could work if you did it right....any "ump" could work, if it was in a song, poem, no...........

2006-12-14 15:44:13 · answer #9 · answered by jim b 2 · 0 0

Runnith. As in my cup runnith over.

2006-12-14 15:44:23 · answer #10 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 0 1

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