Stay up? Well, of course I did. My daily newspaper published a card for playing "election bingo" and I couldn't go to bed until I'd ticked off all the clichés. Sort of cynical indoor twitching, lurking in the undergrowth hoping for a glimpse of Fiscal Cliff.

And, Pssst - Roger - Blorenge (mountain a few miles from my house. Wylfa (power station too few miles from my house) and hirple (what such as I do when hurrying for a bus), perhaps to the livestock market to bid on a chilver...

Added in: I found a copy of Douglas's recommended book in Texas for less than a quid. It is now on its way to me for less than six. Hurrah!

It's a shame that there’s no rhyme for orange,
But "‘purple" and "slurp’ll" is worse.
I’m just writing to say I abhor ing-
-enuity posing as verse.

Once upon a time there was a School Outfitters near Buckingham Palace called Frederick Gorringe -- an obvious gift for those small boys whose school uniforms were orange.... Which now only leaves Roger to find a rhyme for silver.

Brian -- Could "abhoring examples of real ingenuity"
suggest envy or spite -- or just mental vacuity ?

There´s also ´Blorenge´a hill or mountain near Abergavenny. No doubt Ann D. can confirm the pronunciation.

You’re right, I’m simply jealous of the skill ver-
-sifiers show in finding rhymes for silver.

As I said, there's this one. Welsh f's are pronounced as v's.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-n...wales-20234680

Though how long it remains rhymable is dependent on how good the Japanese are at building nuclear reactors...

Soddit - why can't Hitachi build them in their own country? (I know - I'm just testing you.)

Added in: This link (note the date!) makes me wonder why they seem unable to make the connection. All I can see from here is a vista of devastation interrupted at intervals by the arses of ostriches.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17472698

What rhymes with Cassandra...?

Of course we slurp. (There's probably already a drink called a Slurpee.)
Purple/Slurple is great.
I had gotten no farther than:

If you want a rhyme for April
You'll no more find it than a tapir'll.

I know you can invest word combinations that rhyme (sort of) with "orange," but you won't find them in a rhyming dictionary.

I have an old children's poem on the subject of these non-rhyming words:

LONELY WORDS

An orange is a lonely fruit.
.. And months are lonely too.
To be an orange or a month
.. means no one rhymes with you.

How sad if you are purple,
.. or silver, like a dime.
If that’s the case, my lonely friend,
.. you’ll never be a rhyme.

Every other word can boast
.. at least one rhyme, or several,
but if you are an orange...
.. you do not rhyme and never’ll.

You say that you’re a purple month?
.. Oh what an awful curse!
I love your orange, silver hair,
.. and yet you can’t be verse.

Let dictionary writers write
.. new words. Let’s start with forange:
a noun invented to supply
.. a word to rhyme with orange.

Make up rhymes for all of them!
.. Let’s face it. It’s a crime
for purple, silver, orange, month,
.. to go without a rhyme.

That's a cracker, Rob.

'Lonely Words' is very good, Bob, but this isn't quite true:
"I know you can invest word combinations that rhyme (sort of) with "orange," but you won't find them in a rhyming dictionary."

My Penguin Rhyming Dictionary gives, for orange: binge, dinge, hinge, cringe, fringe, springe (small snare), singe, tinge, whinge, swinge, twinge, unhinge, challenge, impinge, syringe, infringe, scavenge and lozenge.

But nothing rhymes with 'film'!

Jayne