On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 01:36 AM, Helene Gannac wrote:

I would have thought "mange" rhymed with "orange", doesn't it?

No!

Mange - as in French to eat - does rhyme with the French pronounciation of orange but mange - a skin disease - is pronounced (in English) as "Maynj"
and rhymes with range.


The English pronounciation of orange rhymes with fringe

Brenda

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