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It's even more annoying when you learn new words mostly through a text channel (like, say, most of the Web). For instance: I've read elsewhere that no common w
by cesarb 12y ago
It's even more annoying when you learn new words mostly through a text channel (like, say, most of the Web).
For instance: I've read elsewhere that no common word rhymes with "orange". But what about "range"? If it doesn't rhyme, then I'm pronouncing one of them (or both) wrong, but how would I know if it weren't for that "nothing rhymes with this" tidbit?
- svachalek 12y agoI think to some degree, the spelling problem is unfixable because we're not likely to come to an international agreement on pronunciation. The "a" in orange is commonly silent in my experience although I've also heard it given a two-syllable pronunciation like OR-unj. Neither comes close to rhyming with range, but which is "correct"?
- tempestn 12y agoFor what it's worth, dictionary.com will play a little sound clip of spoken words: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orange?s=t http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orange?s=t http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/range?s=t http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/range?s=t Of course, it's only one possible accent, but might be helpful with things like this. (In this example, it says "orange" is pronounced, [AWR-inj], and "range" is [reynj]. That's about how I would pronounce "range", but you don't hear that strong distinction between syllables of "orange" here. It comes out more like [awrj].)