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Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?

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What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?

Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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    3 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

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      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

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      https://genius.com/videos/Eminem-rhyming-with-orange

      That’s not rhyme, that’s assonance.

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