The Verse - Volume 22
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Purple Particulars

Purple is truly unique!

Did you know there isn’t a word in the English language that rhymes with purple?  Another bit of trivia is that Purple is one of three colors that don’t have rhyming words.  Here is the list:

One-syllable English words without rhymes

• angst
• breadth
• bulb
• depth
• eighth
• film
• glimpsed
• gulf
• month
• mulcts
• pint
• ninth
• scalp
• sculpts
• sixth
• twelfth
• width
• wolf

 Two-syllable English words without rhymes

• angry
• baggage
• chimney
• garbage
• luggage
• orange
• pizza
• purple
• reptile
• serpent
• silver