Thirty-eight followers on Twitter may not sound like much, but remember: the writer is a dog, so it's equivalent to 266 people.
Regarding the oft-cited "fact" that no English word rhymes with "orange" ... I still think proper nouns are ineligible. Unless "blorenge" is also a common noun (to my knowledge it is not). Couldn't find it in any dictionary I use.
Dictionary.com cites "sporange" (a sac where spores are formed) as one possible rhyme. But only a botanist would know that. Spell-check flags that word, not surprisingly.
Personally, I like "door-hinge" as a rhyme for "orange." Sure, it's hyphenated, but that pushes the rules less than using proper nouns. If I was writing a poem, I would not hesitate to use it as a rhyme for "orange."
Heimhenge said
Regarding the oft-cited "fact" that no English word rhymes with "orange" ... I still think proper nouns are ineligible. Unless "blorenge" is also a common noun (to my knowledge it is not). Couldn't find it in any dictionary I use.
Dictionary.com cites "sporange" (a sac where spores are formed) as one possible rhyme. But only a botanist would know that. Spell-check flags that word, not surprisingly.
Personally, I like "door-hinge" as a rhyme for "orange." Sure, it's hyphenated, but that pushes the rules less than using proper nouns. If I was writing a poem, I would not hesitate to use it as a rhyme for "orange."
But, proper names are 'proper' for poems:
You can't harvest an orange
On top of the Blorenge.
It might be something we can do
if industry keeps spewing CO2.
Does gloamin have common roots with gauming?
About 30 years ago, I talked with Dick Dell (of *that* Dell family, but working for someone else) if it was worth my effort to write the "biography" of a company. I figured that marketing to the company and their employees, their suppliers, customers and competitors would generate the first 500 sales as easy as falling off a ladder, but the odds of getting another 1000 sales was pretty dismal. He told me that most editors would welcome a book with those prospects, as 80-90% of all books had an initiual press run of 1000, and maybe 300 were bound.
So I wouldn't poo-poo that dog author. The only other dog author I can think of, Millie Bush, had a first printing of 100,000 copies, and had multiple printings..
Sir Joshua said, what I have often thought, that he wondered to find so much good writing employed in them [critical reviews], when the authors were to remain unknown, and so could not have the motive of fame.
Johnson: "Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well."
"There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life" - D. Parker
EmmettRedd said
Heimhenge said
Regarding the oft-cited "fact" that no English word rhymes with "orange" ... I still think proper nouns are ineligible. Unless "blorenge" is also a common noun (to my knowledge it is not). Couldn't find it in any dictionary I use.
Dictionary.com cites "sporange" (a sac where spores are formed) as one possible rhyme. But only a botanist would know that. Spell-check flags that word, not surprisingly.
Personally, I like "door-hinge" as a rhyme for "orange." Sure, it's hyphenated, but that pushes the rules less than using proper nouns. If I was writing a poem, I would not hesitate to use it as a rhyme for "orange."
But, proper names are 'proper' for poems:
You can't harvest an orange
On top of the Blorenge.
It might be something we can do
if industry keeps spewing CO2.
Point taken. Proper nouns are used in many poems. But it still seems like "cheating" in the sense the a proper noun (name) can be basically made up to fit the rhyme. Kinda' like how Lewis Carroll made up "Bandersnatch" to rhyme with "catch" in Jabberwocky. Of course, I'm pretty sure "Blorenge" wasn't made up simply for the purpose of rhyming with "orange" ... its etymology is uncertain, but it could well be derived from someone's name. Here's what Wiki says:
Etymology
The name is problematic. It has been suggested that it may derive from the Welsh 'plor' ('pimple') and relating to Middle English 'blure' ('blister') or else from 'blawr ais' ('grey ribbed') but neither explanation is wholly satisfactory.
That said, I propose the following variation on EmmettRedd's pair of couplets:
I couldn't find an orange
Growing freely on the Blorenge,
But I did find several sporange
In some algae near the door-hinge.
FYI ... admins must have line breaks available in their editor toolbar, along with the "img" tag. Regular members don't. (see this thread and scroll down). So to do what I did above with my poem, I had to click on the "source code" button and insert a <br> where I wanted each line to break. Clunky.
Since Grant started this thread, maybe he'll read this and decide to add those editing tools for regular members. Please?