There have been rare occasions where I find myself in need of some rhyming help. I have found the internet to be full of linguistically related resources. Some of those being the many online rhyming dictionaries.
So for today's Terminology Tuesday we delve into the world of rhyme.
In the English language there are no words that rhyme with angst, scalp, purple or month. Some say that orange and silver do not have rhymes but one might argue that orange and syringe rhyme and that silver and pilfer rhyme. I am of the faction that they do. It all depends on if you accept near rhymes or if they have to be true rhymes.
A near rhyme would be bachelor and spatula. In this particular case I don't find it a particularly pleasing rhyme, do you?
Then there are some more difficult words to rhyme. The odd words that end in -th such as eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, breadth, depth, and width. Of which they can rhyme with themselves. More difficult or impossibly rhyming words are: almond, angst, aspirin, breadth, chocolate, chimney, depth, different, elbow, engine, film, foible, fugue, galaxy, golf, hostage, iron, justice, luggage, neutron, office, olive, pizza, plankton, sanction, sandwich, transfer, width, and wolf.
This, of course is not anywhere near an exhaustive list, but it is food for thought.
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