>>What common English word has no rhyme? (Answer at the end, spelled backwards.)
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>Hilmar,
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>I didn't look at your answer (hard to do when the reply button is at the bottom of the message by the way). Is it orange?
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>Renoir
Yes. I have also seen the question phrased as "Why don't poets like the word 'orange'?" - Here, the answer is a little too obvious, IMO.
Perhaps I should have postponed the answer. Sorry.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
