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January 1

good name for the place where bounties are posted?

I'm adding a feature to a website where bounties will be posted for users to complete certain actions, but I'm struggling to think of a nice name for that location. "Bounty Center" is pretty blah. Users will check in there to view and claim bounties. Any suggestions? The Masked Booby (talk) 00:24, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Job board, perhaps? If you wanted you could invoke a Wild West feel and call it the "Saloon Wall" (on the theory that wanted posters might have been posted there). If you want to go more modern, "Most Wanted List" or [Website's name]'s Most Wanted might work. -- 140.142.20.229 (talk) 01:18, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Or you could go with a modern office building, where things like that are posted on the bulletin board, in the break room, near the water cooler. So, any of those terms might work. StuRat (talk) 07:47, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

"Website's Most Wanted" works nicely, thank you! The Masked Booby (talk) 09:15, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

A question about some Chinese text

I know nothing about Chinese, but I need to know something for a computer program that I am writing which must support the language.

My program downloads news content from the German news agency Deutsche Welle. I have noticed that descriptions of news items in the Chinese-language RSS feed sometimes start with a date. I am wondering if that date is part of the text (like such-and-such happened on the given day), or whether it simply means that the given date is the day on which the article was published. The program already displays the publish date of each news item along with the description, so if I can remove a redundant date, that would be good.

Here's an example: [1]. I don't know what it says. The part "12月31日，距离浙江..." is what I am calling the "description". Does it appear that the date at the beginning, "12月31日", is the publish date?

Here's another example: [2].

« D. Trebbien (talk) 16:14, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

月 = "moon, month"; 日 = "sun, day". AnonMoos (talk) 17:27, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, I do know that because I have looked at how Chinese dates are written.

What I am basically asking is whether [3] is about an event that occurred on December 31st or if that article was published on December 31st. « D. Trebbien (talk) 17:32, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

The publishing date is on the top left in blue. See the second link. Something happened on October 24 and the article was published on October 26. Oda Mari (talk) 19:02, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Okay. Thank you for clarifying. « D. Trebbien (talk) 19:23, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Rhymes

What (English) words rhyme with:

• Bulb
• Film
• Month
• Orange
• Purple
• Silver

--75.28.52.27 (talk) 16:55, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

It depends on your dialect as to which words rhyme with which other words. Orange is classicly one of those words that lacks a common rhyme. --Jayron32 16:58, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

You're looking for a rhyming dictionary. Googling "online rhyming dictionary" produces a number of hits. The first hit reports no rhymes for bulb, month, orange, and purple with "sovexportfilm" for film, and "quicksilver" for silver. A better rhyming dictionary may find others, including some of the "softer" rhyme types, of which there are many. (For example, the Rhyme article gives the example of rhyming "orange" with "door hinge"). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.24.215.106 (talk) 17:09, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

You'll find a list of little-used rhymes for all of your words, apart from bulb, at List of English words without rhymes#Words with obscure perfect rhymes. --Antiquary (talk) 17:54, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

As Roger Miller once said: "Roses are red, violets are purple/Sugar is sweet and so's maple surple". --TammyMoet (talk) 21:31, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh...Tammy, now I have visions of Alan Davies...... :) --KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 03:20, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Depends on where you live but this could rhyme with film. Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 02:27, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

...belated applause for that one. well spotted! AndyTheGrump (talk) 03:27, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Here is an attempt at rhyming with "orange", on Language Log. And a more in-depth discussion of English rhymes here. rʨanaɢ (talk) 06:10, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Bulb still remains untackled. I can only offer the deeply unsatisfying identical rhyme lightbulb. --Antiquary (talk) 11:16, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

If I were writing a poem

And was trapped in a rhyme for bulb

I think I could keep on going

It's something I'm sure I can solve

meltBanana 16:22, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Points for trying. Remember, words that have true rhymes in English are the exception rather than the rule. People regularly trot out the silver, purple, orange examples etc, as if they were somehow very unusual. They're not. There are millions of other words that have no rhymes. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 21:30, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Er, pulp, gulp? Incidentally, one bona fide genius once managed to rhyme orange with deranged. Admittedly, he had to mince his vowels even more than usual, but it worked... --Wrongfilter (talk) 22:04, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

OR, obviously: a sonnet of mine rhymes "oranges" with "fringes". But I did it on purpose to jar the reader. Marnanel (talk) 16:35, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I imagine that for many American southerners, "film" rhymes with "elm", "helm", "realm", etc. Some people seem to have invented the word "pilver", n. the feeling of having stayed awake all night to no purpose. If it catches on, we'll have something to rhyme "silver" with. LANTZY^TALK 09:11, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Not too sure about that, Southern dialect has film as two syllables: "Fee-ulm". Corvus cornix_talk 21:27, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

This little Youtube clip of an Eminem interview is interesting in this context. Looie496 (talk) 18:10, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

There's this old one:

Q: What rhymes with orange?

A: East Orange.

←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:21, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Willie Stargell's given name was "Wilver". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:40, 3 January 2011 (UTC)