Did you know
that no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
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Are they the only ones?
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Dunno.
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Nice ice-breaker, MMC2.
English is one weird butchered language, not knowing what it wants to be. One minute, it's an Anglo-Saxon rooted tongue. The next minute, it adopts a lot of French words thanks to the Normans, who eventually mingled with the Anglo-Saxons, whom they themselves previously mingled in earlier generations. And that's not counting Celtic Brits who had settled the Islands before the others came. Fascinating.
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Oui!
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nice doc series on development of the engrish ranglidge :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UqzBA1LNbE&list=PL1i1rVjbTOFDmSmHY4aQPqDoLy6dJoALY
It's amazing how a such an isolated language only spoken on part of an island at one time became such a massively spoken one, being heard across many continents and lands. I will look into this, jriley.
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Put all languages in a blender and you get English.
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Or a Pina Colada.
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You could make a new language out of this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiNnR5Aa8OY
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LOL! Yes you could.
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Ha!
Easy to do when the language is taught everywhere throughout a sprawling sea empire.
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Not perfect, but I'd think "Florence" would be close enough to "Orange" for song or poem: citrus groves in Tuscany? Old-growth Orange-tree groves devastated by hurricane Florence?
The plural 'Florences' would be better, but awkward. The matriarch of the Partridge family & the mother of modern nursing? Both Florences endorse eating oranges.
Needs work...
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Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a structure in which spores are produced)
Silver rhymes with Wilver (a nickname) and chilver (a ewe lamb)
Purple rhymes with curple (a strap under a horseβs saddle)
Month rhymes with uneath (with difficulty)
Interesting. I'll give you the first three, but the last one:
EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! (Buzzer Sound)
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