23 Notoriously Unrhymable Words (That Actually Have Rhymes)

You'll no doubt have heard the old fact that nothing rhymes with orange. But in fact, the English surname Gorringe - as in Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, captain of the USS Gettysburg - rhymes with orange. And so does Blorenge, the name of a hill in south Wales. And then there's sporange, an obscure name for the sporangium, which is the organ of a plant that produces its spores.

So although it might all depend on your accent, on how obscure a word you're willing to accept, and on precisely where the stress falls in the word, it seems there actually is a rhyme for orange. Here are 23 notoriously unrhymable words (that actually have rhymes).