[Magdalen] New to Me.

Kate Conant kate.conant at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 23:14:51 UTC 2015


"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:48 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not the sort of thing people do every day, accomplishing something in
> a delicious manner, or observing something occurring in a delicious manner.
> But then, nothing rhymes with "orange"  --  unless you are Tom Lehrer, I
> guess.
>
>
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The only word in the 20-volume historical *Oxford English Dictionary* that
rhymes with *orange* is *sporange*, a very rare alternative form of *sporangium
<http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sporangium>* (a
botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant).
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