Are There Any Words That Rhyme With Orange & Your Kids?
Posted by: Gale 401 on 21 August 2012
While having breakfast this morning, Old English orange marmalade on toast (whole meal cut it yourself brown)
My 7 year old says dad,Nothing rhymes with orange.
I asked where did that come from?He said i don't know its just in my head.
I had a think and could not come up with anything except a few Del boy words.
Just looked it up and he was right.
Sporange is the only word.Its part of a fern plant.
Kids are brilliant.
Do any of your children come out with stuff that gets you thinking?
Stu.
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by JamieWednesday
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by George Fredrik
Originally Posted by Gale 401:
.Do any of your children come out with stuff that gets you thinking?
Stu.
Goodnes, I hope not! 
ATB from George
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by Gale 401
Originally Posted by JamieWednesday:
Jamie,
Thats not a word.
Its Cockney slang for minge only east London could come up with two words to mean one.
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by James L
Do teens count?
One of mine said Fu*kery is a new word trend at school.
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by madasafish
nothing rhymes with corrugated - there must be loads of examples
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by Dungassin
Originally Posted by madasafish:
nothing rhymes with corrugated - there must be loads of examples
Conjugated
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by madasafish
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by Hook
Clorinated? 
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by madasafish
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by winkyincanada
Originally Posted by James L:
Do teens count?
One of mine said Fu*kery is a new word trend at school.
Amy W. used that in a song.
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by TomK
When my first son was less than three he asked me if supers could fly. I asked what he meant and he said that since Batman was named after a bat, which could fly although Batman couldn't, he reckoned Superman must be named after a super, and Superman can fly so he reckoned that maybe supers couldn't.
Another time when he was much younger he pointed to a fly and shouted Piderhoney. His logic was that he hadn't seen a fly before and it was black and ugly, just like a spider. He knew spiders didn't didn't fly but bees did. Bees make honey hence Piderhoney.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to get into the amazing but probably quite scary mind of a child?
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by Bart
When my oldest was about 5 or 6, we were some place and music was playing and he asked what it was. I said it was soul music.
He said, "I know 'Old King Cole was a merry old soul."
Blew my mind.
Posted on: 21 August 2012 by rodwsmith
"I am not hungry of sausages. I am hungry of sweets."
Ben, 4.
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by Steve J
Stu,
My kids came out with the 'orange' challenge a few years ago. I think it's one of the things that go around now and again. The other colour with no rhyming word is 'purple'.
I miss the kids being inquisitive when they were young. Now they just want to raid my bank account!
ATB
Steve
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by JamieWednesday
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by JamieWednesday
And for the horsey set, a curple...
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by Steve J
Jamie.,
Wrong. Neither 'Burple' or 'Curple' are in the Oxford English Dictionary. So there!
Steve
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by GraemeH
An older friend of mine was asking his young grandchildren what they wanted to be when they grew up.
"chef" said one, and "fireman" said the other.
My friend then asked them lightheartedly "and what do you think I'll be when I grow up?"
"A dead person" the youngest one replied. G
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by JamieWednesday
Doh! I didn't realise we were playing to the Marquis of Gerryboze rules, I thought it was just plain old 'common' usage.
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by Steve J
Jamie,
Burple and curple are hardly words in common usage. If they become words of everyday use they are often then included in the OED.
Try again.
ATB
Steve
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by Forester
Jamie & Steve
How about an honourable draw? Burble is not in my Shorter Oxford Dictionary but curple is. It is apparently an old Scots word meaning 1. A crupper for a horse, 2. The buttocks.
Not sure about the full Oxford as my bookshelf is too small.
Posted on: 22 August 2012 by GraemeH
