Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?message-squaremessage-square224fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down12
arrow-up1151arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square224fedilink
minus-squareincogtino@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·4 months ago“People say the word orange doesn’t rhyme with anything” https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg https://genius.com/videos/Eminem-rhyming-with-orange
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months ago https://genius.com/videos/Eminem-rhyming-with-orange That’s not rhyme, that’s assonance.
minus-squaremaniii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThe Etymology of Orange. :-D Orange ( Anglo-Saxon ? English language ) Oranj. ( Slavic? European? etc language ) Naranj. ( Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian language ) Narang. ( Hindi , Sanskrit Indic language ) Narthangai. ( Tamil - South Indian language ) :-D
“People say the word orange doesn’t rhyme with anything”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg
https://genius.com/videos/Eminem-rhyming-with-orange
That’s not rhyme, that’s assonance.
The Etymology of Orange.
:-D
Orange ( Anglo-Saxon ? English language )
Oranj. ( Slavic? European? etc language )
Naranj. ( Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian language )
Narang. ( Hindi , Sanskrit Indic language )
Narthangai. ( Tamil - South Indian language )
:-D