POP QUIZ...what a word that rhymes with silver?...

[Foo]

Do you mean except for the one that I stated?

Or perhaps you mean American english.

[losCHUNK]

what the fuck is a chilver? liar?...

It's a kind of young sheep.

[sliver]

You check the monkey dictionary you get peanuts. Go check out a full oxford, moran?

"A ewe-lamb: commonly chilver-lamb. (Found in OE., and still common in southern dialects, though not evidenced in the intervening period.)"

That, plus the fact that the OED's last listed quotation is from the 19th century, plus the fact that onelook found nothing, suggests in my opinion that "chilver" is not worth mentioning. I still would not disagree with a statement that silver is not "rhymeable."

[Scarface]

Samething with purple

[vesp]

Samething with purple

"hirple"

although that is a colloquial scottish word, so no doubt people will count it as "made-up" and hence continue to believe that no word rhymes with purple.

[seremtan]

I answered the question, semenspunk \o/

no u

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/ ... freesearch

Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver.

oxford lexicographers > you

[Foo]

Jesus. I provided the word for you, right here in this thread.

Now we're going to get into what year it was last mentioned to try and claim it's not a word?

Fail.

[Dr_Watson]

a chilver is a ewe that hasn't had any babies.

so its one of those words only people who live in whales know about.

[sliver]

Jesus. I provided the word for you, right here in this thread.

Now we're going to get into what year it was last mentioned to try and claim it's not a word?

Fail.

For all intents and purposes, it's not a fucking word. Yes, in the most literal and pedantic sense, it is a word because it has been used, but it's some vernacular bullshit from the deep south that hasn't seen the light of day since 1810. No dictionary on earth but the OED has any mention of it. If you use it in an academic paper it will be crossed out (see who fails then), if you use it in speech no one will know what you are talking about, et cetera -- why even consider it?

[Foo]

Jesus. I provided the word for you, right here in this thread.

Now we're going to get into what year it was last mentioned to try and claim it's not a word?

Fail.

For all intents and purposes, it's not a fucking word. Yes, in the most literal and pedantic sense, it is a word because it has been used, but it's some vernacular bullshit from the deep south that hasn't seen the light of day since 1810. No dictionary on earth but the OED has any mention of it. If you use it in an academic paper it will be crossed out (see who fails then), if you use it in speech no one will know what you are talking about, et cetera -- why even consider it?

No english dictionary on earth, oh.... EXCEPT FOR THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH DICTIONARY

[seremtan]

Jesus. I provided the word for you, right here in this thread.

Now we're going to get into what year it was last mentioned to try and claim it's not a word?

Fail.

learn to read, fucko. oxford lexicographers say no word rhymes with silver, therefore no word rhymes with silver. i worked on the OED back in 88 when the 2nd edition came out, so i'm pretty familiar with the conventions, and what you have there is an OBSOLETE word, of which there are many in the OED (such as 'shat' as slang for irishman, or 'windfucker' as a kind of bird of prey). clearly what the oxford lexos mean is 'a word still in use', not some ancient slang from bronze age fucking northumbria, but hey, feel free to try it in your next scrabble match

[werldhed]

If that's the case, then they should say, "No English word in common use today rhymes with 'silver'."

[sliver]

No english dictionary on earth, oh.... EXCEPT FOR THE DEFINITIVE ENGLISH DICTIONARY

you poor, poor man

[MKJ]

If that's the case, then they should say, "No English word in common use today rhymes with 'silver'."

winner

oh, and there always is pilfer