I seem to be very time poor of late so have been falling behind on my blogging duties - a lot of travelling mostly. Grantham today, Gloucester tomorrow. Etc. Etc.
Above is another Glen Baxter to be getting on with plus Catch Her in The Wry (link you know where) set me thinking about words in the English language that don't rhyme with any other (English) words. Here is a list of 70...
A - Almond, Angry, Angst, Anxious, Aspirin
B - Bachelor, Breadth, Bulb, Bulbous
C - Calumny, Cannabis, Caveat, Chaos, Chimney, Chocolate, Circus, Citrus, Citizen, Condom
D - Denizen, Depth, Diamond, Different
E - Eighth, Elbow, Else, Empty, Engine
F - Fift, Film, Foible, Fugue
G - Galaxy, Glimpsed, Golf, Gulf
H - Hostage, Husband
I - Iron
J - Justice
K - ...
L - Laundry, Luggage
M - Monster, Month, Mulcts
N - Ninth, Neutron
O - Obvious, Of, Office, Olive, Orange
P - Pint, Pedant, Penguin, Pizza, Plankton, Plinth, Promise, Purple
Q - ...
R - Reptile
S - Sanction, Sandwich, Shadow, Silver
T - Transfer, Twelfth
U - ...
V - Vacuum
W - Width, Wolf
X - ...
Y - ...
Z - ...
So your challenge people, should you be prepared to accept it, is to find words that rhyme with any of these. Hat Tip to Hubpages.
Plus, to soothe the furrowed brow as you think about this knotty problem, here are The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain with Teenage Dirtbag. I may be in a silly mood but I kid you not...
9 comments:
Manwich rhymes with Sandwich...sort of.... (a Manwich is a sloppy joe).
Love the Teenage Dirtbag ukulele version!
Don't of and love rhyme?
That uku orchestra was so bizarrely fun! It grows on ya.
I am WAY too tired to even attempt rhyming. Maybe I'll come back tomorrow, since that stuff is right up my alley.
The ukulele music is pretty good!
I agree with Petit Fleur. Also doesn't 'gulf' rhyme with 'wolf' (and vice versa of course), 'reptile' with 'style', 'mile' and 'file' and 'bile', 'olive' with 'give' and 'sieve', and 'citizen' with 'denizen'?
JoJo/Mahal/Little Flower - Ermmm..... Further researches reveal that what rhymes with what is a contentious area. I think you are coming up with near-rhymes as opposed to perfect rhymes. There appears to be a universal consensus that there is no word that rhymes with 'orange' but beyond that lies a heated debate. A nice near-rhyme: 'bachelor' and 'spatula'. PS JoJo - 'Manwich' and 'Sloppy Joe' had me googling. I can't say it looks like we're missing much over here...
Catchy/Isn't the Ukelele Orchestra a gooid find? :D
Sybil - Last comment meant for you too. My bad!
While Some Left Their Heart In San Francisco I Left My Vacuum in the Catacomb..........
tony - very careless of you, I'm sure.
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