Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I may go to Wales to discover some of my roots and be the Rabiner who went up the hill Blorenge and come down a mountain. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:48:24 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] American Landscape > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > According to the rhyming dictionary the only word which rhymes with > orange > is ..... orange. > But I knew that already. > Near rhymes would be > door hinge, lozenge. > Where's Cole Porter when you need him? > According > wordcourt.com, http://www.wordcourt.com/archives.php?show=2004-05-19 *Dan > Warner, of Fraser, Mich., writes, ?Can you supply me with a word that rhymes > with ?orange???* To answer your question, I got in touch with Hilary B. > Price. As the cartoonist who draws the strip ?Rhymes With Orange,? she may be > the world?s expert on this subject. Price told me, ?Marilyn vos Savant, who > writes ?Ask Marilyn? for Parade magazine, claims there is a word ?sporange.? > But the word is not in my dictionary.? ?Sporange? isn?t in most dictionaries. > It does appear in Webster?s Third Unabridged and in the enormous Oxford > English Dictionary, both of which say it?s a variant of ?sporangium,? a > botanical term. Webster?s Third gives two pronunciations for ?sporange?: the > one you?d expect and ?spuh-randj,? with the accent on the second syllable. > ?Spuh-randj? is the only pronunciation given in Oxford. So although ?sporange? > looks as if it rhymes with ?orange,? whether it really does is > debatable. There is a hill in Wales called the Blorenge?but that?s a proper > name, not an ordinary word. Hilary Price told me she didn?t know of any single > rhyming word, either. ?As far as I?m concerned,? she said, ?the closest rhyme > is ?door hinge.?? ------------------------------ > > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > > mark at rabinergroup.com > > > > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 > 17:07:49 -0500 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: > Re: [Leica] American Landscape > > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Mark > Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > > >> Three cheers for the green > white and orange! > >> > >> (what rhymes with orange?) > >> > > > > sporange > > > > > > >> > >> -------------------- > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> > Photography > >> mark at rabinergroup.com > >> > >> > >>> From: Douglas Barry > <imra at iol.ie> > >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:39:33 +0100 > >>> To: Leica Users Group > <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] American Landscape > >>> > > >>> > >>> Sonny Carter wrote > >>>>>>>>>> > >>> Here's a new one: > >>> > http://sonc.com/look/?p=3 > >>> Here are earlier ones. > >>> > http://www.sonc.com/american_landscape > >>> <<<<<<< > >>> > >>> You americans > are blessed with an iconic flag, nice primary colours, > and > >> a > >>> > penchant for displaying them in lambent light. We Irish get a muddy > light > > >>> and secondary colours. Sometimes I get jealous.... > >>> > >>> Nice pic! > > >>> > >>> Douglas > >>> _________ > >>> Douglas Barry > >>> Bray, Co. > Wicklow > >>> Republic of Ireland > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users > Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Sonny > > > http://sonc.com/look/ > > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > > > USA > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- > Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, > Louisiana USA _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information