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snargmcnarf | 19:38 Tue 31st Mar 2009 | Phrases & Sayings
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What word rhymes with month? from the English dictionary.
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Millionth?
I don't think there is a full rhyme for month. The closest i've seen is 'months' and 'once'
There is no rhyme-word for month any more than there is for silver, wasp or orange.
Borange rhymes with orange. I don't know what it means but it was on QI.
Borange does not feature in The Oxford English Dictionary, Chambers Dictionary, Collins Dictionary or The Bloomsbury Dictionary. These are certainly amongst the major British English dictionaries, though it might conceivably exist in some American publication or other. This being a British site, I think it's safe to say borange is not - as stated in the question - "from the English dictionary", whatever QI may have said.
Ah, but... Hunth, a word meaning a hundred thousand, is in the OED... a fine example of a portmanteau and rhymes very well with month...
And, hopefully not engaging in superfluous sciolism, may I offer, in the case of orange Sporange? It's a variant of sporangium per Webster�s Third Unabridged and the Oxford English Dictionary.
While Chilver, rhyming with silver is a ewe lamb per the Oxford English Dictionary. (Throw in Dicky Dilver the English slang for the periwinkle plant).
We may as well add to the triptych; Hirple,meaning to limp (though hirple is a Scottish - English word, so it might not be in everybody�s dictionary). However, purfle (meaning to decorate or ornament the edges of garments or wooden musical instruments) is certainly in my Merriam's.

As much as I'd like to claim originality... the source for some of these sure-to-be quodlibeted is a unique site with the even rarer nom-de-plume of eumaledictio...

How's Spring springing, Q?
Well, hunth certainly isn't in my print edition of the OED and nor does it feature in the online version thereof, C. Nor is it any of the other three major British dictionaries I listed earlier. I suspect, therefore, that my previous mention of "some American publication or other" remains largely valid.
The OED does list chilver, but nowadays as a purely southern dialect word, so whilst it certainly exists..... None of the other three reference works list it.
I'm with you on sporange, though.

Spring has certainly sprung over here and day-trips to France are but a month away! I hope the weather is as kind to you at the moment. Cheers
Strange, Q... while not doubting your claims, my references indicate chilver to be included in OED 2nd edition 1989... I don't have it immediately available, but my reference also states the given name of Chilvers is included. I would not, however, support a given name as a valid rhyme for silver...
Apparently The Borange is the name of a hill and so is a proper noun.
Yes, C, as I said in the opening five words of the second paragraph of my last answer, the OED does list chilver. Chilvers, as a proper noun, is not there and neither, for precisely the same reason I imagine, is Borange, Squarebear.
I queried the 'validity' of chilver for the purposes of this question and its reference to "from the English dictionary" purely on the grounds of its apparently very localised and dialectal quality. As explained, three of Britain's major dictionaries do not list it at all.
But what the hey!
My apologies for using the words, 'as explained' above...for the simple reason that I hadn't explained! I should have said that chilver is in exactly the same boat as borange is as regards the three dictionaries listed in my second response here...ie it ain't there!

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