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But does anything rhyme with orange? Oh yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPcR5RVXHMg

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Nitpick: I think Eminem only uses near rhymes, but there are a few true rhymes also.

https://rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=orange&typeofrhyme=pe...

Hrm, do they count as rhymes if they embed the whole word they’re rhyming with? Also “gorringe” is a real noun.

I think the reason nothing rhymes with it is it’s a loan word that the Englishers would have corrupted had it not belonged to the head of state

> Englishers

Haven't heard that word used in a very long time.

"Orange" is actually pronounced /oringe/, so "syringe" and "door hinge" sound like true rhymes to me?

The rhyme has to be from the last accented syllable (otherwise "tinge of fringe in your minge" are rhymes), so syringe isn't, and door hinge only works if you make it a compound word and make hinge unaccented, which means dropping the h. At that point you're in near rhyme territory.

> door hinge only works if you make it a compound word and make hinge unaccented

Rhymes are often judged in the context of spoken language, under which conditions, dropping the h and having hinge be unaccented relative to the preceding door wouldn't be unreasonable or uncommon.

The way I speak that particular h would never naturally get dropped unless I'm slurring badly enough that half my words aren't recognizable.

And long before you reach that point orange will degrade to a single syllable, ornj, ruining the door hinge rhyme.

In the dialect I speak (roughly North Central American), syringe has the stress on the second syllable, which makes the rhyme with orange (ˈôrənj, ˈärənj) a bit awkward. Looking it up, I was surprised that both stress on the first syllable and on the second were listed.

  səˈrinj, ˈsirinj

It piqued my curiosity. May I ask where you've heard the latter?

Interesting. Now that I think about it, /səˈrinj/ sounds quite American to me, while /ˈsirinj/ is more English?

Also, you characterize the 2nd vowel in "orange" as a schwa, but to many people it's /i/:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orange#Pronunciation

I just lazily copied and pasted the phonetics from the New Oxford American Dictionary :)

It's generally in the range of /ɪ/~/ɨ/. Descriptions of English regularly conflate the ɪɛʌ with ə as they behave somewhat similarly wrt stress-related sound changes.

I agree with the issue of stress, but it seems less problematic to me than the vowel mismatch. Orange and door use the FORCE vowel in their first syllables. Syringe doesn't; it uses NURSE, and this is enough to prevent the words from rhyming.

(Perhaps you view orange as using the START vowel in its first syllable. That's still not NURSE and still doesn't rhyme with syringe.)

Yes, the word "Borange".

Defintion: A Borange is a word created for the sole purpose of rhyming with word that doesn't have anything that ryhmes with it. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25858732

There is a mountain in South Wales with a name that rhymes with orange: it's called The Blorenge.

Purple.

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