Squilver. Hirple.

There are 3 words in the English language for which there are no rhymes (allegedly). I can do nothing about orange, but I can save the others.

"Hirple" is a word that Kipling used. It gives you a rhyme with purple. Then there's "Squilver". Hereon hangs a tale... ;-)

Once upon a time, many years ago... (Alas, definitely in my time, since I was there; therefore in the time of many of you) There is an event known as FATE - Festival At The Edge. The Edge in question being Wenlock Edge in Shropshire. Cutting out some verbiage, 'twas there I met the gorgeous & also completely wonderful Val Littlehales (also Gene Tudor who, I am sure, many of you know). I explained that I'd been on a minibus trip up & around Long Mynd, At one point we passed a road sign (a couple of years later, I passed it myself when it was just me driving around) which read as "The Bog Squilver"!

It was on two lines:
The Bog
Squilver

Two separate places. But at that point in my tale, Val exclaimed "I was born in The Bog!" And then realised what she'd just said... :) It ought to be a story or a song, oughtn't it? "The Bog Squilver"...

It isn't, but thus I give you two good rhyming words - good because how otherwise would you rhyme them? Hirple for purple; Squilver to match silver. Can't do anything as regards orange...