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"Behind the intials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare. The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairovoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from." Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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Monday, June 09, 2008

orange

Okay...

Doesn't lozenge rhyme with orange. I'm inclined to believe that it doesn't because...well...nothing rhymes with orange, but I think lozenge does. Does it depend on whether you pronounce orange as one or two syllables?

In any case, I'm attempting to invent a new word: morange. I'm going to use it in my novel. It will refer to words in the English language for which there are no rhymes. Technically though, not orange because, of course, morange would rhyme with orange. I'm not sure there are any other words that have no rhyme in the English language, so morange may refer to an empty set, but nonetheless, there you are.

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