Got rehired. Not too hard, even got a raise.
I have a couple of short stories ready to publish. I'm sending them off soon. Ready for something different.
I have been buying books about how to write short stories and novels. There's one by Oxford university that has exercises at the end of each chapter. That's an interesting concept in books about writing, to actually have you write something. I'm going to try it out. I'll bet the practice alone will do me some good.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
gotta get i-net access, new job
I am tired of not having internet access at home. I hate having to go to the public library to write posts. How crazy is that?! I hate being poor.
On a brighter note, I'm getting laid off soon. Brighter because I don't like my job. They're remodelling the airport and the company is losing more than half the storefronts we had. I'll just stay on for a few more weeks and collect unemployment, while looking for something better. Shouldn't be hard. Can't do much worse.
On a brighter note, I'm getting laid off soon. Brighter because I don't like my job. They're remodelling the airport and the company is losing more than half the storefronts we had. I'll just stay on for a few more weeks and collect unemployment, while looking for something better. Shouldn't be hard. Can't do much worse.
the list : rhymes for orange
boar range
boor range
bore range
core range
door range
fore range
four range
floor range
gore range
lore range
more range
nor range
poor range
pore range
roar range
sore range
score range
shore range
s’more range
snore range
spore range
store range
whore range
yore range
your range
boor range
bore range
core range
door range
fore range
four range
floor range
gore range
lore range
more range
nor range
poor range
pore range
roar range
sore range
score range
shore range
s’more range
snore range
spore range
store range
whore range
yore range
your range
rhymes with orange
People have often said there’s no rhyme for the word "orange." Not so.
Let’s first divide the word into two halves, two words. The second half is easy. "Range." This could be either "an area over which anything moves" or "extent or scope" or "The horizontal distance covered by a projectile," etc. (These definitions are from Webster’s Pocket Dictionary.)
The first half is not that difficult either. An "Or" sound. Now, if we spin the Patented Karl Seely Rhyming Wheel and see which of these sounds can be added to "or" we get at least 25 different common English words. A Boor Range could be a really seedy bar. Or it could be Boar Range, a place where Ted Nugent could bring the kids and hunt wild boar.
Let’s say I was tossing oranges at a target, and they kept falling short. You could say I was giving my oranges a rather "poor range." If I put a little mustard on them I would give them "more range." I might then get them to the "core range" of the target area.
None of these rhymes are really useful. We’d probably have seen some poetry by Byron or Shelley or Yeats that employed them if they were. We don’t sit around thinking of the large scoreboard as the "score range", or the camp fire as the "s’more range" or the "lore range." If we sat long enough trying to come up with a useful rhyme, we’d end up with a rather "sore range" right on our backside.
Technically, however, these do in fact rhyme with "orange." From the silly (snore range) to the dirty (whore range) to the almost useful (your range). If we make the words plural, rhymes for "oranges," we automatically double the number. 50 rhymes for "orange" and "oranges."
Let’s first divide the word into two halves, two words. The second half is easy. "Range." This could be either "an area over which anything moves" or "extent or scope" or "The horizontal distance covered by a projectile," etc. (These definitions are from Webster’s Pocket Dictionary.)
The first half is not that difficult either. An "Or" sound. Now, if we spin the Patented Karl Seely Rhyming Wheel and see which of these sounds can be added to "or" we get at least 25 different common English words. A Boor Range could be a really seedy bar. Or it could be Boar Range, a place where Ted Nugent could bring the kids and hunt wild boar.
Let’s say I was tossing oranges at a target, and they kept falling short. You could say I was giving my oranges a rather "poor range." If I put a little mustard on them I would give them "more range." I might then get them to the "core range" of the target area.
None of these rhymes are really useful. We’d probably have seen some poetry by Byron or Shelley or Yeats that employed them if they were. We don’t sit around thinking of the large scoreboard as the "score range", or the camp fire as the "s’more range" or the "lore range." If we sat long enough trying to come up with a useful rhyme, we’d end up with a rather "sore range" right on our backside.
Technically, however, these do in fact rhyme with "orange." From the silly (snore range) to the dirty (whore range) to the almost useful (your range). If we make the words plural, rhymes for "oranges," we automatically double the number. 50 rhymes for "orange" and "oranges."
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