* Words that have no rhyme in French. What about your language?
Ce matin, en allant au travail, j'écoutais une émission de radio. Un des présentateurs a fait une courte liste de mots en français dont on ne peut pas trouver de rime et difficile à utiliser dans un poème par exemple. Voici la liste :
- triomphe / quatorze / quinze / simple / pauvre / meurtre / monstre / muscle / belge / bulbe / goinfre / larve
En effet, j'ai beau avoir réfléchi sur ce sujet, je ne trouve pas de rime pour ces mots. Et vous? Vous en connaissez peut-être d'autres?
This morning, I was listening to the radio while driving to go to work. One of the hosts said that some words had no rhyme in French and I was surprised because I never paid attention to it. Those words are : - triomphe / quatorze / quinze / simple / pauvre / meurtre / monstre / muscle / belge / bulbe / goinfre / larve
Indeed, I couldn't find a rhyme with those words. Do you have some words that have no rhyme in your own language?
Nothing really rhymes with 'life'. Well, at least in Russian. The word is жизнь, pronounced [ʐɨzʲnʲ]:
<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Ru-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8C.ogg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Ru-жизнь.ogg</a>
At least this is what I was told at school. Now I can think of some words that do rhyme with жизнь, but most people wouldn't even consider them words. So, no "proper" words rhyme with жизнь, let's put it this way.
Yes - without a doubt, Cilla. Anyone who pronounces 'orange' and 'strange' in the same way is certainly mispronouncing one of them!
'Orange' has two syllables, and (unlike in French), the stress in 'orange' falls on the first syllable. Regardless of the spelling, most unstressed syllables in English tend to be pronounced either as a schwa or a short 'i' sound. This is very different from the long, stressed diphthong in the single-syllable word 'strange'.
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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/orange
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/strange
@Su.Ki. and what about "strange" for "orange"?
Unless I mispronounce "orange" I guess
