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To: stevenallen who wrote (34103)	7/12/2005 11:06:06 PM
From: stevenallen	Respond to of 62558

Found this, sounds right to me: worldofmi.com Chilver, which means a female lamb, rhymes with "silver." Oneth as in "thousandth," "hundredth," and "tenth," rhymes with "month." Chirple, a twittering note used to describe a bird's chirping, rhymes with "purple." All these words are found in Oxford's English dictionary. Orange is the only one that is difficult to rhyme. I've seen people mention the word "sporange" (short for sporangium: botanical dictionary) as a possible rhyme because it's spelt nearly the same. However, it's pronunciation doesn't rhyme with "orange." You can, of course, use two words to rhyme with orange, such as saying, "That aircraft has a very low range" or "That machine has a poor flange," But, as far as I know, there is no single English word that rhymes with "orange."

To: stevenallen who wrote (34103)	7/13/2005 4:16:44 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

A while back my uncle Vern had lost his girlfriend of many years and had been sick and morose, laying up wake at nights. Finally he came out of it, and declared he was over his period of mourning. During breakfast one morning I offered him some fruit and told him to buck up, saying poetically, "Take this fruit citrus and tell me, Orange you glad that by the moon silvern That with love you are not still ill, Vern?"