What if?

[_Blixa]

OK, name a word that rhymes with orange.

(waits for smoke to start coming out of pirates main board)

Door-hinge(?)

I would like to know what rhymes with discombobulate.

Completely alienate?

[_Doctor Steuss]

Completely alienate?

Nice. I've always wanted to use discombobulate in a poem. Perhaps something along the lines of circumambulate would be close enough. Or maybe I can use discombobulation (is that even an acceptable variant of “discombobulate”?) and then use tintinnabulation… I could then claim to be Poe reincarnated.

*sigh*

[_asbestosman]

and neither are there any words that rhyme with silver.

Pilfer comes pretty close. Any pirate worth her dubloons would know that.

F and V are fairly close in sound and often change characteristics depending on surrounding sounds. I believe things like that are why the plural of leaf is leaves and the plural of wife is ludicrous (or was that lascivious?).

[_asbestosman]

Completely alienate?

Nice. I've always wanted to use discombobulate in a poem. Perhaps something along the lines of circumambulate would be close enough. Or maybe I can use discombobulation (is that even an acceptable variant of “discombobulate”?) and then use tintinnabulation… I could then claim to be Poe reincarnated.

How about enthrobulate? I could then claim to be Lewis Caroll reincarnated.


I'm also reminded of a song from Disney's Sword in the Stone

It's a rough game anyone knows
There are no rules, anything goes
There's no logical explanation
For this discombooberation
It's a most bemuddling
most befuddling thing

There's no sensible explanation
For this discombooberation
It's a most hodge-podgical
Most illogical
Most confusiling
Most bamboozing
Most befuddling
Thing!

[_Doctor Steuss]

It's a rough game anyone knows
There are no rules, anything goes
There's no logical explanation
For this discombooberation
It's a most bemuddling
most befuddling thing

There's no sensible explanation
For this discombooberation
It's a most hodge-podgical
Most illogical
Most confusiling
Most bamboozing
Most befuddling
Thing!

Tee-hee-hee... boob.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

and neither are there any words that rhyme with silver.

Pilfer comes pretty close. Any pirate worth her dubloons would know that.

F and V are fairly close in sound and often change characteristics depending on surrounding sounds. I believe things like that are why the plural of leaf is leaves and the plural of wife is ludicrous (or was that lascivious?).

Awe bless. Nah it doesn't really work. One would like it to work, but one knows it doesn't. Sorry.

:P

Pirate.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

Combustulate, doctrinate, nobulate,
repribate.

[_Doctor Steuss]

Combustulate,[...]

It tends to be easy to create rhymes when you create words.

[_Blixa]

OMG!!! What about the classic "busticate?" Most memorably uttered by classic 1980's All My Children villain, Billy Clyde.

edit: I was under the impression that "busticate" was a total neologism possibly created by the All My Children writers. However, a brief online research of the word yielded this fascinating discussion in regard to a similar coinage:

ab·squat·u·late (b-skwch-lt)
intr.v. ab·squat·u·lat·ed, ab·squat·u·lat·ing, ab·squat·u·lates Midwestern & Western U.S.
1.
a. To depart in a hurry; abscond: "Your horse has absquatulated!" Robert M. Bird.
b. To die.
2. To argue.
[Mock-Latinate formation, purporting to mean "to go off and squat elsewhere".]
Regional Note: In the 19th century, the vibrant energy of American English appeared in the use of Latin affixes to create jocular pseudo-Latin "learned" words. There is a precedent for this in the language of Shakespeare, whose plays contain scores of made-up Latinate words. Midwestern and Western U.S. absquatulate has a prefix ab-, "away from," and a suffix -ate, "to act upon in a specified manner," affixed to a nonexistent base form -squatul-, probably suggested by squat. Hence the whimsical absquatulate, "to squat away from." Another such coinage is Northern busticate, which joins bust with -icate by analogy with verbs like medicate. Southern argufy joins argue to a redundant -fy, "to make; cause to become." Today, these creations have an old-fashioned and rustic flavor curiously at odds with their elegance. They are kept alive in regions of the United States where change is slow. For example, Appalachian speech is characterized by the frequent use of words such as recollect, aggravate, and oblige.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

Combustulate,[...]

It tends to be easy to create rhymes when you create words.

I actually googled it. :S

Pirate.