National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day

Name: National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day
Start: 2026-09-01
End: 2026-09-01

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Some words refuse to rhyme. Orange leads the list.

September 1 is National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day, a celebration of linguistic oddity. English has a surprisingly large number of common words with no true rhymes: orange, silver, purple, month, ninth, pint, wolf, and bulb among them. The phrase "no rhyme nor reason" dates to at least the 16th centu