MonDie Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 What rhymes with "false"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Malls. Calls. Talls. Stalls. Crawls. Balls. Halls. Lolz. Walls. Waltz... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonDie Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 (edited) The "s" is pronounced differently in those plurals. Is it just my dialect? I don't need a rhyming word for any particular reason, but I found it interesting that I could not think of one. Edited May 11, 2013 by Mondays Assignment: Die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Pulse. What rhymes with oranges? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krash661 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 lol, interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwagen Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 What rhymes with oranges? Sporange! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 The "s" is pronounced differently in those plurals. Is it just my dialect? That's the point. It's all about how you pronounce it. I saw a story on Eminem (Marshall Mathers / Slim Shady) on 60 Minutes a while back that reinforced this point... It's all about how you shape the word in your mouth and the rhythm you use to push out the syllables. Also, regardless of mouth shape and rhythm of the syllables, waltz is really quite a bit closer no matter how you pronounce it, IMO. What rhymes with oranges? From the above referenced 60 Minutes story: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/10/eminem-finds-five-words-that-rhyme-with-orange-on-60-minutes.html “People say that the word orange doesn't rhyme with anything ... I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange," said Eminem, seated behind a mixing board at his private recording studio, before effortlessly conjuring an on the spot rap about putting an “orange, four-inch, door hinge in storage" and having "porridge with Geo-rge.” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 What rhymes with oranges? Orange is. As in, "You may love your oranges, but you don't know what orange is." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonDie Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Also, regardless of mouth shape and rhythm of the syllables, waltz is really quite a bit closer no matter how you pronounce it, IMO. Waltz, halts, salts, malts, and faults are all very close, but they're not perfect. False is unique because its "al" is followed by a normal S sound, not a z-like S sound. Someone will probably come up with a rhyming proper name at some point. Pulse. What rhymes with oranges? With the tinges of bright oranges, children still fear the big syringes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bignose Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 what about halse http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/halse?s=t salse http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/salse?s=t and valse http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/valse?s=t ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACG52 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 What rhymes with silver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwagen Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 What rhymes with silver?- sliver - quiver - river - shiver - beaver - believer http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_rhymes_with_silver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACG52 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 None rhyme with silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonDie Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 pilfer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACG52 Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 pilfer Yeah, I'll accept that. The 'f' sound in place of the 'v' throws it off a bit, but close enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 False arrest rhymes with balsa vest. That's not going to help much outside of a "bad poetry" competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 It is said - and best said with an upper crust English accent - that only an American can rhyme dance, romance and trousers. Which is dance,romance and pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieAG Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Schmaltz rhymes with False. Someone will probably come up with a rhyming proper name at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Schmaltz rhymes with False. Not in any accent I have heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta1212 Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Not in any accent I have heard. I've heard some people with the surname Schmaltz pronounce it fairly close to rhyming with false, but as a word it definitely doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pragamatist Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I'm curious to see how creative everyone can get: What rhymes with purple? What word do you think rhymes with purple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaton Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 What rhymes with purple? Her pole. What word do you think rhymes with purple? I, a speaker of the English language, declare by an unprivileged oral right as a speech-capable organism and hereby ordain with the power of evolutionary linguistics this newly formed compound word, now and forever known in all its glorious verisimilitude as "her-pole". Let it be known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 (edited) Her pole. I, a speaker of the English language, declare by an unprivileged oral right as a speech-capable organism and hereby ordain with the power of evolutionary linguistics this newly formed compound word, now and forever known in all its glorious verisimilitude as "her-pole". Let it be known. Presumably, it would rhyme with perpole, if that was a word. On the other hand it wouldn't rhyme with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burple When I googled that, I was expecting to find this joke. http://anti-joke.com/anti-joke/random/what-is-the-color-of-a-burp----burple BTW http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gurple Edited June 19, 2013 by John Cuthber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) I'm curious to see how creative everyone can get: What rhymes with purple? What word do you think rhymes with purple? Well... do you remember the drink called Burple? You could always rhyme that you have a purple Burple filled with purple nurple. But, don't forget the painful purple nurple that could make you drop your purple nurple filled Burple. Because if you do, we'll proclaim a party foul and make you chug your purple nurple filled Burple until you become the color purple Edited June 20, 2013 by Daedalus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overtone Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Furpull - the pulling of fur, written as an adjective. btw: none of the words employing a 't' rhyme with "false" (waltz, etc) bcause the absence of a t is phonemically meaningful: "faults" is a different word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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