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Orange is one of about 80 one syllable words that don't have an exact rhyme.

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Ferrari is the third most common family name in Italy. It's the Italian equivalent of Smith.

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The Mona Lisa has no eyelashes or eyebrows. In 2007, computer images showed that the original painting had these features but that they had disappeared over time, perhaps due to cleaning.

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Emmanuel Macron, President of France, married his high school drama teacher. They started dating when he was 18 and she was 42.

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Frank Hayes was possibly the only dead person to win a horse race. The twenty-two year old jockey suffered a fatal heart attack in the late stages of a steeplechase race at Belmont Park, New York in 1923.

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Sep 25, 2022

Credit @McKenzieFam for #788.

Credit @YouLoveEagle for #789.

Credit @ooftownroad for #790.

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Sep 26, 2022

What about blorange, Blorenge, and Gorringe? Hurrah for Wiktionary.

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Sep 26, 2022

and Sporange

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Sep 26, 2022

Some of the more famous of the denoted ~80 words that don't have a rhyme:

• Coolth (as mentioned in an interesting fact!)

• Depth

• False

• Ninth

• Worlds

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Aug 26, 2023

halls rhymes with false

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Sep 19, 2023

hallZ

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Feb 24, 2024

halls rhymes with falls which sounds different to false

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Sep 26, 2022

Fun Fact: The westernmost side of china is closer to Germany than it is to the easternmost side, and vice versa!

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Sep 27, 2022

Question: How do you make categories on quizzes, or "sections?"

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Oct 7, 2022

It can only be done on a computer or pc. Touchscreen and mobile, sorry

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Feb 22, 2023

How does that work? How can both sides be closer than the other at the same time?

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Mar 22, 2024

Westernmost point of china is closer to germany than that same point is to the easternmost point of china

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Sep 27, 2022

There are 57 billion nematodes for every human.

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Oct 5, 2022

Wait orange is one syllable!?

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Oct 6, 2022

Agreed, orange is definitely two syllables not one.

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Nov 29, 2022

I just noticed when you say that, Quizmaster??

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Oct 7, 2022

Orange technically does have a rhyme. It's Blorenge, a hill in Wales.

Silver also has a rhyme, and it's chilver, a female lamb.

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Apr 17, 2023

proper nouns don't count, man. Blorenge is a proper noun

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Nov 1, 2022

Ah yes, Orange, a famously monosyllabic word.

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Feb 29, 2024

Now, that would make it an interesting fact...

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Nov 30, 2022

Merriam Webster doesn't even list a one-syllable possibility.

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Dec 6, 2022

One word, two syllables - demarcation.

1, 2, 3...

o - range

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Dec 18, 2022

Orange has two syllabes.

https://www.howmanysyllables.com/questions/is_orange_one_or_two_syllables

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Jan 3, 2023

Do I not know what a syllable is?

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Mar 22, 2023

789 ew

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Apr 1, 2023

It's not that complicated: many (most?) Americans pronounce orange as (ornge).

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Aug 15, 2023

only the rednecks

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Apr 18, 2023

If Ferrari is indeed the third most common last name in Italy, a better comparison might be Williams, which is the third most common last name in the United States (https://namecensus.com/last-names/) unless the comparison is made on account of its frequency of occurrences, in which case you may want to specify that.

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May 8, 2023

It is commonf or Orange to have either one syllable or two syllables.

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Aug 16, 2023

Surely "Rossi" would be the Italian equivalent of Smith, given that Smith is the most common surname in the US and not third? Also Orange is not one syllable.

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Nov 23, 2023

No, Ferrari literally means "Smith" in Italian. It has nothing to do with how common it is.