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
George Washington probably never cut down a cherry tree. That story seems to have been made up by a biographer who wrote about Washington in the mid-1800s.