862: Rhymes for Purple & Silver Apr 18, 2017

Poets attend: despite the popular myths suggesting otherwise, and even the post to this blog 333 days ago claiming that there were no words in English to rhyme with 'purple' or 'silver' (and 'orange' and 'month'), there are a few. Though these would likely not be deemed common by anyone aside from perhaps a few old farmers in Scotland, 'curple' refers to the butt (or 'arse' if you're from that region) of anything though especially a horse, and 'chilver' is a ewe-lamb; it is also etymologically related to 'calf'. 'Hirple' as well rhymes with 'purple', and it means to limp. It was not simply a joke at the expense of farmers before, and these quite rare words are considered dialectal used more or less exclusively in Northern England and Scotland. Urban Dictionary lists 'chilver' as "a word used to prove that something rhymes with silver", but each word does have a long history, dating back to Old English.