If you wish to make rhymes with orange
Then the pronunciation must change
And then you'll be home on the range
Though your doggie may suffer from mange
Well, now I'll be off to the Grange
For afternoon tea, as arrange
d With the Laird and his wife and the weans
Where I will then dance to the strains
Of McCallum, McWilliams, McStrange,
The band who will often shout, " Sláinte!"
In a fondness for Gaelic exchange
Though the toast is not fruit but Glen Morangie
And they love to wear jodhpurs from Gorringe.
A contest entry
- Oranges and/or Lemons by Vera Rich.
590 points, ended January 30, 15 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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I am not going down the track that Bartholomew Mole is following!
Gle mhath, a'Cheit!
No' sae bad, an' gey comical for a' that. Nice reference tae the Glen o' Tranqulity (is it no' "Morangie" wi' an i? An' diz the band no' shout "Hee-yooch"?)
As a point of information, the only real rhyme for "orange" is the name "Gorringe". Google it.
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Well, I'll gang tae the foot o' oor stairs! I've never bought Gorringe jodphurs. Wi' legs like mine, who needs them? Sorry to have missed the i in Morangie. Didnae want tae advertise them -they mak enough bawbees as it is. As for Bartholomew, he never changes!
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(I am now reminded of Peter Sellers' story about Barrington Minge, the out-of-work actor)
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I meant to add 'Tha mi gle mhath' . I hope that's close enough!
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It would be close if I had any idea what you're answering!
"Ciamar a tha sibh?" (How are you)
"Tha mi gu math." (I am well, adding "gle mhath" as an afterthought to say "very well")
Just in case you wanted to say thank you, that's "tapadh leat".
But let's not confuse the issue. My Gaelic is very, very basic anyhow.
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I think your Gaelic is somewhat better than mine! I'm a great consulter of Google when it comes to languages, and cutting and pasting Gaelic gets some bonny results. Anyway, I think I meant to say "I am feeling fine," which all things considered is about as far as I'm prepared tae gang. Thanks for the comment. It made me smile :- )
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Then "tha mi gu math" will do.
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This is amusing - and I look forward to seeing it when you have finished revising it.
Ylou might find it adds to the humour if you were to write
-- as arrange-
d with the Laird...
(cf my "Plus DOCS changent"
where I wrote:
LGlitter pants and pink Doc Martens,
Cindy;s dancing at the disco,
Just about to lose her heart, ens-
Nared by Princey the DJ from San Francisco.
And It would be good if you could somehow find an exact clinching rhyme for the last word!
By the way, the ending reminds me of a limerick that won a competition organized by "Famou Grouse" whisky about 30 years ago.
As I recall, it ran something like
The Minister down in our glen
Gave a tea for the ladiies, and then
Retired to the house
To drink "Famous Grouse"
With the curate and sexton - Ah-men!
(Though some Scottish purists objected that it shoud have been "Manse"... but that would ruin the rhyme!)
ADDED LATER...
I was unable to complete the judging for a few days owing to a virus (the biological kind!)
This has changed since I first saw it - and is certainly much improved. But I feel it only fair to other competitors to judge it as it was on the day the competition closed. -
This is cute.
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I read somewhere that there is only one word in the English language that rhymes with orange... and danged if I can remember what it is... it was a weird word, though.
There's some, as your poem depicts, which we can pronounce to sort of sound like orange if we don't pronounce orange just right.
Your poem made me smile, Keith
Good luck in the contest
Dee
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Maybe "orange" and "minge" rhyme. But I think that's only w' yon schemies after a buckit or two of Grant's poored doon their wee feckin throats, d'ye ken?
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as usual, you make me smile. Thank you sweetie.
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Superb Plus +
I wouldn't change a thing!!! I can't even succeed in changing the pronounciation so it rhymes with "orange". Thanks for the chuckles. This was great.
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