{"id":6619,"date":"2012-02-07T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T12:30:38","slug":"sporange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6619","title":{"rendered":"Sporange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sproange<\/strong> \/sp\u0252\u02c8r\u00e6nd\u0292\/ is another name for the sporangium \/sp\u0252\u02c8r\u00e6nd\u0292\u026a\u0259m\/ of a plant, which the <a href=\"http:\/\/oed.com\/view\/Entry\/187451#eid21241630\">OED<\/a> defines as &#8220;a receptacle containing spores; a spore-case or capsule.&#8221; Sporange comes via Latin from the Greek <em>\u03c3\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03ac<\/em> spore + <em>\u1f00\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (vessel).<\/p>\n<p>Sporange is also the only English word that rhymes with <strong>orange<\/strong>, a factoid I discovered on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexiophiles.com\/featured-articles\/raiders-of-the-lost-rhyme\">Lexiophiles<\/a>, which lists a number of other English words that have no rhymes, including month, vacuum, obvious, penguin, husband and whilst. Do you know of words that rhyme with any of these?<\/p>\n<p>A blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexiophiles.com\/featured-articles\/raiders-of-the-lost-rhyme\">Skorks<\/a> lists a number of made up words that rhyme with orange, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; amoreange \u2013 an orange you instantly fall in love with<br \/>\n&#8211; quantorange \u2013 an orange that is both here and somewhere else at the same time<br \/>\n&#8211; tetrahedrorange \u2013 an orange shaped like a pyramid<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/words\/are-there-any-words-that-rhyme-with-orange\">Oxford Dictionaries site<\/a>, lozenge is a half-rhyme or pararhyme for orange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sproange \/sp\u0252\u02c8r\u00e6nd\u0292\/ is another name for the sporangium \/sp\u0252\u02c8r\u00e6nd\u0292\u026a\u0259m\/ of a plant, which the OED defines as &#8220;a receptacle containing spores; a spore-case or capsule.&#8221; Sporange comes via Latin from the Greek \u03c3\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03ac spore + \u1f00\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd (vessel). Sporange is also the only English word that rhymes with orange, a factoid I discovered on Lexiophiles, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,118,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-greek","category-language","category-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}