The Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) gave us a word that rhymes with purple. Sadly, children’s picture book writers probably can’t use it in their rhyming books about colors, because the word “curple” means “butt.” Here’s the stanza… Read More
The original version of Three Blind Mice from 1609 goes:
Three Blinde Mice,
Three Blinde Mice,
Dame Julian,
Dame Julian,
The Miller and his merry olde Wife
she scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife.