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What rhymes with "madeleine"?

14:01 / 20.10.06

Help a brother out? Because I'm suspicious of the results I got from Rhymezone: linky. They're rhyming it with, fr instance, "amen", but I'm still not sure. So any takes on this?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:05 / 20.10.06

Heh, I rather like the idea of "Madeleine Again and Again."

14:08 / 20.10.06

How are you pronouncing it?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:17 / 20.10.06

"Mad-a-LAYNE" or "Mad-a-LINE"?

Joy Division Oven Gloves

14:38 / 20.10.06

Daisy chain or Turpentine?

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

14:42 / 20.10.06

I've always inclined more towards "Gentle Ben" when I've said it, actually.

14:50 / 20.10.06

If you're talking about the cakes it's "mad-e-lehn", to rhyme with Ben.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

15:41 / 20.10.06

Chatelaine, yet again, you're so vain, burning rain, sugar cane, boiling brain, entertain, ailing swain.

Perhaps equally important:

Madeleine

French and English: the French form of the byname of a character in the New Testament, Mary Magdalene “Mary of Magdala”. Magdala was a village on Lake Galilee, a few miles north of Tiberias. The woman “which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities” (Luke 8: 2) was given this name in the Bible to distinguish her from other bearers of the very common name Mary. It was widely accepted in Christian folk belief that she was the same person as the repentant sinner who washed Christ's feet with her tears in the previous chapter (Luke 7), but there is no support in the text for this identification. Variants: English: Madeline (common esp. in Ireland), Madoline; Madelaine, Madlyn; Magdalene.

Cognate: Irish Gaelic: Madailéin.
Pet forms: English: Maddie, Maddy. French: Madelon. [source]

19:17 / 20.10.06

Madeleine fell in the Seine,
The fish believed her to be insane.

Shaft quickly rescued her (again),
Already wet from the Parisian rain.

She then bit him, egad, what a pain!
Her zombie hunger demanded his brain.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:21 / 20.10.06

Mist is the originator of the questionable limerick and I claim my five pounds.

19:24 / 20.10.06

That's not a limerick, it's a... well, I'm not quite sure what it is.

Is it 'Madelayne' or 'Madelinne'? I had always thought it was the latter.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:33 / 20.10.06

It's closer to a limerick than I've ever been.

19:42 / 20.10.06

I have always said Madalinn. However, as a child I had all sorts of problems with pronouncing some of the words in the Famous Five books, (see: buroo for bureau, queentin for quentin, and kway for quay) so I am probably best ignored.

19:52 / 20.10.06

It rhymes with you´re so vain, or cocaine!

19:52 / 20.10.06

Dammit, aargh, Nick already used that!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:56 / 20.10.06

Nick is a quick one. Leather pants and chocolate cake recipe and all.

20:05 / 20.10.06

Some people say Mad-a-lain
Is someone who rattles your chain.
But if it's a Maddalin
your chain will be rattlin'
by someone who'll relish the pain.

Now that's a limerick. A really crappy limerick. But you try rhyming two versions of the same name.
Go on, try.
What I want to know is why the hell was Deja trying to rhyme it in the first place.

09:04 / 21.10.06

Mad-a-ln. no a, no i. ln.

12:07 / 21.10.06

Well, thank you very much people. It was enlightening and funny too. I would mail each of you a kitten if I had kittens. Xoxo.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:08 / 21.10.06

That would probably be a bad idea as mailed kittens don't post well.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

14:40 / 21.10.06

No. You want plate armour for that, at the very least.

14:57 / 21.10.06

"mailed kittens", "You want plate armour for that, at the very least"

Someone else already had that idea.

Probably was quite helpful for mice catching.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

15:43 / 21.10.06

I still think that concept is borderline treacle-y in its cuteness.