believe me, nothing rhymes with orange...
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From: Acer V <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Nothing rhymes with orange? (OT)
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, W. J. Liles wrote:
>
> >Andrew Fildes wrote:
> >>
> >> You think onager and dowager rhyme with orange? How on earth do you
> >> pronounce orange? Go for bastard rhymes like 'fringe' and 'range'
>
> no no, i believe andy's (?) claim was "nothing i can think of rhymes with
> "onager" either", to which i countered "dowager" and someone else came up
> with "porringer".
>
> >>
> >> >On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, W. J. Liles wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>Acer V wrote:
> >> >>-- snip --
> >> >>>
> >> >>> btw, cute domain, nothingrhymeswithorange.com
> >> >>>
> >> >>-- snip --
> >> >>
> >> >>How about onager? A wild equid (ass actually) of Asia.
> >> >>
> >> >>It's as close as I can get.
> >
> >
> >At least orange and onager alliterate. Like I said it's the best I
> >could do.
> >
> >As for dowager, you'll have to ask Acer. Maybe he can come up with
> >something in Latin or an Indoeuropean language.
>
> dowager: old lady. goo look it up :) other languages aren't fair play,
> we're limited strickly to english.
>
> /Acer V
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