Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Orange, Onager and or Onager, and one Ogre

ORANGE
Lexigrams to:

AN OGRE ON
AN ONAGER
ARE NEAR
AN ONAGER.

ONE OGRE
ONE ONAGER
ONE ONAGER,
RAN ON AN
ONAGER RANGE.

ANGER AN OGRE
ON AN ONAGER?
NO!

GO NEAR AN OGRE
ON AN ONAGER?
NO!

GO NEAR AN OGRE
GONE ON AN AGER RAGE ?
NO!

NAG AN OGRE?
NO!

AN AGE AGO
RAGE RAN
ON AN OGRE!

ANGER RAN ON
ONE OGRE!

GORE GONE ON

AN OGRE!
AN EAR ON ONE OGRE,
NEAR AN ONAGER RANGE,
RANG!
GO ON,

GROAN OGRE!
ERGO,
GO ON,

GO OGRE.
ONE OGRE GONE.

AN OGRE GONE.
AN ONAGER GONE.
AN AGE GONE.
AN ERA GONE.

AN AGE,
AN ERA,
AN ONAGER,
AN OGRE,
ARE GONE

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An excerpt concerning Linda's Lexigram from the word ORANGE, from Star Signs, page 576:

quote:

I saved my favorite Lexigram for this final chapter. Of all the
mysteries contained in the Lexigramming of English words, using the
Anglo-Saxon, druid-protected alphabet, this one is, to me, the most
profound. The only word that doesn't rhyme with any other. The
fruit my grade-school teacher used to demonstrate gravity. Orange.
ORANGE contains: NO ANGER--NO RAGE--NO AGE
end

Not sure why exactly she found it to be "the most profound" .
Perhaps because it is one she did not leave errors in, as she did with her other Lexigrams?
I wonder why she "missed" what other things were to be found with the word "ORANGE".
(this is not a complete list, but does include the three words she used in her tiny Lexigram of the word "ORANGE")
NO AGE
NO AGER
NO ANGER
NO AEON
NO ARGON
NO EAR
NO EGO
NO EON
NO ERA
NO GEAR
NO GO
NO GOER
NO GORE
NO GROAN
NO NAG
NO OAR
NO OGRE
NO ONAGER (two different definitions for "Onager; see definitions later in this post)
NO ONE
NO ORANGE
NO ORE
NO ORGAN
NO RA
NO RAG
NO RAGE
NO RANGE
NO ROAN
NO ROE

One can use GO instead of NO above.

That is quite a few "missed" words found within the word ORANGE.
Here are a few more:
(excluding odd words and or politically incorrect words for now)

A ARE AN O" ON OR EARN RANG RAN GONE NEAR GENOA

As one can clearly see,
more is found within the letters of the word ORANGE.

Definitions for ONAGER:

quote:
1.
onager - an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, trebuchet, trebucket, catapult
engine - an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.; "medieval engines of war"

2.
onager - Asiatic wild ass
Equus hemionus
wild ass - any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa
chigetai, dziggetai, Equus hemionus hemionus - Mongolian wild ass. (related to the donkey)


More comments on the paragraph of Linda's I quoted previously;
There is no such thing as "the Anglo-Saxon, druid-protected alphabet".
That is her belief and her New Age mythos, NOT FACT.
The alphabet used in the English language is "the Latin alphabet".
That IS A FACT, not a belief.
It is not Anglo-Saxon, nor any of the other non factual things she said about it.
Sorry if that information offends anyone.
Babies do not come from storks, nor is the moon made from cheese, nor the Earth flat.
When New Age and or any religious/cult type of concepts are put forth as fact,
(when such is clearly not fact, nor logical)
I must protest.

AS TO NOTHING RHYMES WITH THE WORD ORANGE....
That is NOT completely true either! Some of the rhymes are not a singular word however.





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More about the word/name ORANGE!

quote:
Orange..Or-ange 1 (ôrnj, r-)
Princely family of Europe ruling continuously in the Netherlands since 1815. The name was first used for a former principality of southeast France that passed to the house of Nassau in 1530.
Orange...Or·ange 2 (ôrnj, r-)
A city of southern California north-northeast of Santa Ana. It is a manufacturing center in a citrus-growing area. Population: 135,000.
Orange..or·ange (ôrnj, r-)
n.
1.
a. Any of several southeast Asian evergreen trees of the genus Citrus, widely cultivated in warm regions and having fragrant white flowers and round fruit with a yellowish or reddish rind and a sectioned, pulpy interior, especially C. sinensis, the sweet orange, and C. aurantium, the Seville or sour orange.
b. The fruit of any of these trees, having a sweetish, acidic juice.
2. Any of several similar plants, such as the Osage orange and the mock orange.
3. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between red and yellow, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 590 to 630 nanometers; any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium lightness and moderate saturation.
adj.
1. Of the color orange.
2. Made from oranges.
3. Tasting or smelling like oranges.

More about the word/name Orange at: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Orange

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I like this reference/definition!

quote:
3. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between red and yellow, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 590 to 630 nanometers; any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium lightness and moderate saturation.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28colour%29

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As for more words or phrases that can rhyme with Orange...
here are a few more!
Not all perfect rhymes, but close enough for poetry and music!

forage, porridge, door-hinge,
sporange, Blorenge, Gorringe,
porange
There are many others that while not exact, could be used,
like,
moorage, courage, storage, scourge, foreign, syringe, Borage, melange, lozenge, George,
gorge, tonnage, florid, forge

A few more, not perfect, but could work!
(And if you go with the plural, of orange; ORANGES, to find even more near rhymes!)
overage, overages, urge, urges, fromage/fromages (a French dairy product), surge, surges, demiurge, sewage, corsage, corsages verbiage, homage
dowager, large, dirge, dirges, damage, dommage, carnage, mortgage, mirage, average, averages, coverage, coverages...

and phrases such as:
more urge
more urges
ore ridge
ore ridges
more edge
more edges
encourages
our adz (adz is an an ax-like tool for trimming and smoothing wood,)


And the possessive of some names:
Ormand's

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More candidates to use to partially rhyme with orange:

1 syllable:
binge, cringe, fringe, hinge, klinge, minge, singe, tinge, twinge, vinje, winge

2 syllables:
butt hinge, door hinge, impinge, infringe, strap hinge, syringe, tee hinge, t hinge, unhinge

4 syllables:
lunatic fringe

6 syllables:
hypodermic syringe
1. abstringe
2. allonge
3. ange
4. arrange
5. astringe
6. attinge
7. avenge
8. axunge
9. befringe
10. binge
11. blancmange
12. blunge
13. boomslange
14. challenge
15. change
16. citrange
17. compinge
18. conge
19. constringe
20. counterchallenge
21. counterchange
22. cringe
23. derange
24. dinge
25. disarrange
26. disponge
27. dispunge
28. disrange
29. downrange
30. elenge
31. ellenge
32. emplunge
33. enrange
34. eschaunge
35. estrange
36. exchange
37. expunge
38. falange
39. flange
40. fonge
41. fontange
42. fringe
43. funge
44. gange
45. glasynge
46. grange
47. grunge
48. gunge
49. hemminge
50. henge
51. hinge
52. impinge
53. implunge
54. infringe
55. inge
56. interchange
57. lagrange
58. lange
59. longe
60. losange
61. lounge
62. lozenge
63. lunge
64. mange
65. maskinonge
66. melange
67. menge
68. microsyringe
69. midrange
70. minge
71. misarrange
72. monge
73. munge
74. muscallonge
75. muskellunge
76. melange
77. nge
78. obstringe
79. omnirange
80. orange
81. outrange
82. overchange
83. peenge
84. perstringe
85. phalange
86. plonge
87. plunge
88. prearrange
89. prolonge
90. range
91. rearrange
92. rechange
93. reexchange
94. restringe
95. revenge
96. runge
97. scavenge
98. scrounge
99. senge
100. shortchange
101. singe
102. skringe
103. solange
104. sponge
105. sprenge
106. springe
107. spunge
108. stange
109. stonehenge
110. strange
111. swinge
112. synge
113. syringe
114. tange
115. tenge
116. tinge
117. tonge
118. twinge
119. underfringe
120. unhinge
121. venge
122. whinge http://www.onelook.com/?loc=rz5&w=*nge&scwo=1&sswo=1

\more here: http://www.onelook.com/?loc=rz4&w=*age&scwo=1&sswo=1

And here to rhyme with the plural word, Oranges: http://www.onelook.com/?loc=rz5&w=*ges&scwo=1&sswo=1
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It is said that no word rhymes with ORANGE. There is a musical recording Rhymes With Orange by Mario Grigorov. There is a comic strip with the same name by Hillary Price. Witchiepoo sang There Ain't No Rhyme for Oranges on H. R. Pufnstuf. Glenn Anderson reports a Canadian band called Rhymes With Orange had two hit recordings, Marvin and Toy Trains.

However, BLORENGE (a 1,833 ft. hill near Abergavenny, Wales) is given in O. V. Michaelsen's book Words At Play. SPORANGE looks as if it rhymes, but the word, which is short for sporangium, is pronounced spuh-RANJ.

The examples above meet the requirement that the last two syllables rhyme with ORANGE, since the final sylllable is unstressed. If we require only that the final syllable of the word match, then there are many other candidates for words which rhyme with orange. For example, Ng Boon Leong says that as English is pronounced in Singapore, RANGE, STONEHENGE, and DERANGE all rhyme with ORANGE. Bruce Salvisberg says the French given name SOLANGE rhymes with orange. Bruce Todd points out that the final syllable of CITRANGE is pronounced identically with the final syllable of ORANGE, and W3 shows an alternate pronunciation of SYRINGE which is also identical in the last syllable. Ian Eiloart provides BINGE, CRINGE, HINGE, M*NGE, IMPINGE, SINGE, TINGE, and WHINGE, and he provides this little poem:

Ted Hughes would constantly whinge, "There's no rhyme I think for orange" But wait, we misheard, For these were his words, "There's no wine to drink for a binge"
http://jeff560.tripod.com/words3.html

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How people pronounce the word ORANGE/ORANGES
makes for many variables in what would/could be considered rhyme words, especially in music and poetry.
There are even guidebooks and programs to help folks write songs and poetry using such "slant rhymes", and "near rhymes", and so forth.

or-nge
ar-inge
ar-inj
ar-anj
or-anj
or-an-ju
or-an-je
ornj
arnj
or-aynj
or-an-jah
ar-an-jah
ahr-ahn
onj
ahnj
oar-inj
awn-jah

For more see:
http://reviews.ebay.com/NOTHING-rhymes-with-ORANGE-Yeah-right_W0QQugidZ100000000039305 80
NOTHING rhymes with ORANGE - Yeah, right !

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