> At 03:36 PM 28/10/03 -0800, Joy Beeson wrote:
> >Let me sit and eat this orange
> >I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge.
Now this strikes me as something Gilbert & Sullivan would have come up with.
If anyone could force things into rhyming, they could! ("Very Model of a
Modern Major-Genera
At 10:00 AM 10/29/03 +, Jane Read wrote:
>whereas orange is given the pronounciation of 'orinj', which
>rhymes with hinge, fringe, whinge, binge, cringe, etc, etc.
Actually, it doesn't -- the emPHASis is on the wrong syLAHble.
And the vowel isn't quite the same, being more of a schwa than
At 03:36 PM 28/10/03 -0800, Joy Beeson wrote:
Let me sit and eat this orange
I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge.
I'm really trying hard to find a word which rhymes "exactly' with orange,
for I feel that the second vowel sound is not as strong as the "i" in
"inge". It's more the one written
In a message dated 29/10/2003 02:11:04 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> This, and all the previous postings on the subject, tell me just how
> far off I am in *my* pronounciation... :) "Mange", I never had a reason
> to utter, but a "mangy" animal (usually a dog, but not always) g
In a message dated 28/10/2003 23:37:32 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Let me sit and eat this orange
> I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge.
>
> Joy
>
I told you I would have nightmares - now all I am getting in my emails are
poems about door hinges and oranges - see!!!
But, T, you are in VIRGINIA, whereas I grew up in East-Central Ohio
and live in Michigan. To me it is indeed "meingy" and "meinge" for
mangy and mange. The vowels will out! Never heard of or-einge
instead of orinj so much for superior, if I ain't heard of it, eh?
On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003
On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003, at 18:36 US/Eastern, Joy Beeson wrote:
Let me sit and eat this orange
I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge.
This, and all the previous postings on the subject, tell me just how
far off I am in *my* pronounciation... :) "Mange", I never had a reason
to utter, but a
Let me sit and eat this orange
I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge.
Joy
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At 01:40 AM 10/28/03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Now I'm having nightmares about the poem which might include orange and door
>hinge - wooe!!!
Darling, would you bring me an orange?
While you're up, please oil the door hinge.
(How do people who say "door 'inge" pronounce "orange"?)
On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 20:36 US/Eastern, Helene Gannac wrote:
I would have thought "mange" rhymed with "orange", doesn't it?
Don't know about the Oz English; various branches of English continue
to, er... branch out" ... But, for all the two words *look*
similiar, in US, they don't rhyme, u
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