2007-07-18 09:40:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
First, "Never end a sentence... a preposition 'with'."
Now, the answer to the sense of the question:
We must first define a perfect (true) rhyme. Perfect rhyme demands the exact match of all sounds from the last stressed vowel [of the main stressed syllable] onward [to the end of the word]. Words which rhyme with no other English word are called "refractory rhymes." There are many such words. Even if we limit the list to the least common kind - one-syllable - there are probably at least 60 such words, far more than three.
To list just three common words which rhyme with no English word, I choose "sixth, warmth, and wolf."
The three most commonly answered, on the public airways, are "pint, purple, and silver."
WRONG. Pint rhymes with rynt, which means to prompt a milk cow to move. Purple rhymes with two words -
curple, the hindquarters of a horse or donkey, and hirple, to walk with a limp. Silver rhymes with chilver, a female lamb.
Listed above are purple, silver, month, lozenge, cushion, and orange.
Month actually rhymes with "oneth," as in mathematical terms such as a "hundred-and-oneth," or "twenty thirty-oneths." [a little poetic license here, but we are talking about "rhyme."]
Lozenge and cushion,, I think, are true "refractory rhyme" words.
Orange is also an English word with no English rhyming word. * some do point to "Blorenge,"
a hill in Wales, but that is a "Welch" word.
Interesting question, even with the preposition at the end. I hope this linguistic trivia from an old, retired college English Instructor [ SUNY} of language and literature helps! John (Cy) Perry
2015-05-10 08:43:03 · answer #1 · answered by John 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
orange
lozenge
purple
2007-07-18 10:19:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 46⤊ 56⤋
i was going to say orange but i think blamange (sorry bout spelling)that pink dessert stuff sounds a bit like orange
2007-07-18 09:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by joe k 3 · 32⤊ 73⤋
I think ORANGE is one of them
2007-07-18 09:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 34⤊ 55⤋
Is it orange, cushion and purple? I seem to remember it from school.
2007-07-18 09:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by The Guru 2 · 44⤊ 56⤋
orange
2007-07-18 09:47:42 · answer #6 · answered by Jeanette 7 · 37⤊ 53⤋
Orange. Month. & something else. (:
2007-07-18 09:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by SPIDER FINGERS is not a princess 6 · 37⤊ 64⤋
sugar
2007-07-18 09:47:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 23⤊ 129⤋
i think its orange, purple, and silver.
2007-07-18 09:45:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 126⤊ 44⤋
i can only think of orange
2007-07-18 09:43:41 · answer #10 · answered by aint got a scooby 3 · 45⤊ 72⤋