Podd: Something Rhymes with Purple

Thank You and Farewell!

23 juli 2024 | 36 min

Portcullis

16 juli 2024 | 44 min

Ah, it's the penultimate week for our fantastic podcast. Join Susie and Gyles as they unpack the wondorous world of castles.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Hassock: Kneeler in a church.

Quisquous: Difficult to handle.

Umbriferous: Giving shade.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Buckingham Palace' by A.A. Milne

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

Alice is marrying one of the guard.

"A soldier's life is terrible hard,"

Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

We saw a guard in a sentry-box.

"One of the sergeants looks after their socks,"

Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

We looked for the King, but he never came.

"Well, God take care of him, all the same,"

Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

They've great big parties inside the grounds.

"I wouldn't be King for a hundred pounds,"

Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

A face looked out, but it wasn't the King's.

"He's much too busy a-signing things,"

Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

"Do you think the King knows all about me?"

"Sure to, dear, but it's time for tea,"

Says Alice.

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Sorbetto

9 juli 2024 | 38 min

Elixir

2 juli 2024 | 38 min

Hades

25 juni 2024 | 35 min

Nirvana

18 juni 2024 | 33 min

Garbelage

11 juni 2024 | 40 min

Sabana

4 juni 2024 | 40 min

This week, Susie and Gyles embark on an exciting journey into the wild as we delve into the history and evolution of all things 'safari'. Discover how this term, rooted in Swahili and Arabic, has traveled through time and across continents to become synonymous with adventure and exploration.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Catillate: To lick the dish.

Phubbing: Using your phone in social situations.

Blandish: To cajole or to gently flatter.

Gyles' poem this week was 'The Tyger' by William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat.

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp.

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears

And water'd heaven with their tears:

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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Saudade

28 maj 2024 | 34 min

This week, we're unraveling the sentimental journey behind the word 'nostalgia'. Join Susie and Gyles on a linguistic journey through time, where every word is a portal to the past.

Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Desiderate: To yearn for something one once had but has now lost.

Listicle: Simply, a little list!

Natsukashii: A Japanese word used when something evokes a fond memory from your past and that is enough in itself.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Growing Old ' by Nanette Newman:

Growing old is like a career

only a career you didn’t train for

you didn’t expect

and you certainly didn’t want.

This ‘new’ career – creeps up on you

And surprises you.

For instance

You find yourself saying new lines, like

‘Everything looks a bit blurry’

‘Why do my legs hurt me?’

‘Why do my arms have flabby bits?’

‘Why can’t I run any more?’

‘Why do people speak so quietly?’

‘Why is my iPad such a mystery?’

(even though my six-year-old Grandson has shown me how to work it ‘ten’ times)

And ‘why do people hide my house keys?’

Also you suppose this New career (Growing Old) is going to

Have a long run, but

Showbusiness being what it is

It could come to a sudden end

(but perhaps best not to think about that).

Anyway - if it does run -

You hope the notices are ‘good’

Critics might say ‘you look good for your age’

But - this is not the role you’d chosen to play.

Anyway it seems you’re stuck with it

And let's face it you have been rehearsing for it for many years!

When you think about it

There’s a bit of ‘Agatha Christie’ about

This new part - for instance

Skirts hanging in the wardrobe

Suddenly get smaller

Round the waist -

Something mysterious changes

The colour of your hair

Chairs try and hold on to you - so that

You can’t get out of them

Why is print smaller?

Why do you look forward

to a hot water bottle at night?

(that’s definitely climate change)

Also, what is filling your body with liquid –

So that you have to pee all night?

(This definitely needs more research).

Your new career

‘Being Old’

Has a long list of questions

Surrounding it - to be

Honest – the part is not

Really very well written –

And doesn’t have much

Appeal – ( no wonder Judi Dench turned it down).

You ask yourself

Is the character you

Are now going to play

Wiser? – no – I don’t think so

Funnier? Only unintentionally

Like – when you forget

Where you’re going – or

Throw your arms round

The plumber, because

You thought he was your

Friend's husband, come

Round because he’d

Found your glasses.

Anyway, how long you’ll be

Playing this part

(You don’t want to play)

You’ve no idea.

You don’t feel the

Rehearsals have been

‘long enough’.

Some of the cast

(the even older members

Have already left the

Production) –

You miss them.

So – this is a step

into the unknown

in your ‘new career’

a new part to play.

Will it have a ‘long run’?

Who knows

But there you go

‘That’s Showbusiness’

So – Here we are.

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Pizzicato

21 maj 2024 | 31 min

Murdre

14 maj 2024 | 40 min

Hupnos

7 maj 2024 | 38 min

Mundungus

30 april 2024 | 40 min

This week, Susie and Gyles explore fragrances and scents. Join us as we inhale the sweet aromas of people and places...

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Acang: To act foolishly, lose self-control.

Anythingarian: One who professes no creed in particular; an indifferentist.

Coleworts: Old news. Literally, a cabbage-like plant. From the proverb for “old news,” “coleworts twice sodden’.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Home Thoughts, From Abroad' by Richard Browning

Oh, to be in England

Now that April's there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware,

That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf

Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough

In England—now!

And after April, when May follows,

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!

Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge

Leans to the field and scatters on the clover

Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture

The first fine careless rapture!

And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew

The buttercups, the little children's dower

—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!

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Botulus

23 april 2024 | 47 min

Fascicles

16 april 2024 | 34 min

Bafflegab

9 april 2024 | 45 min

This week Susie and Gyles get lost in the world of nonsensical language, and embrace the weird, wacky and wonderful ways the English language can be.

Your favourite duo also pay homage to the masters of nonsensical language – Dr. Seuss, whose fantastical worlds and playful rhymes have enchanted generations of readers; Spike Milligan, the irreverent genius known for his zany humor and inventive wordplay; and Edward Lear, the Victorian poet and artist renowned for his witty limericks and nonsensical verse.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Spissitude: Thickness or compactness.

Latescent: Slowly becoming hidden.

Gronk: Fluff between your toes.

Gyles' poem this week was 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' by Edward Lear

I

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea

In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money,

Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,

"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

What a beautiful Pussy you are,

You are,

You are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

II

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!

How charmingly sweet you sing!

O let us be married! too long we have tarried:

But what shall we do for a ring?"

They sailed away, for a year and a day,

To the land where the Bong-Tree grows

And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood

With a ring at the end of his nose,

His nose,

With a ring at the end of his nose.

III

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling

Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."

So they took it away, and were married next day

By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,

Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

They danced by the light of the moon,

The moon,

They danced by the light of the moon.

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Oxford, Gibson and Brogue

2 april 2024 | 38 min

Happy Birthday Gyles!

26 mars 2024 | 43 min

Treasure House

19 mars 2024 | 31 min

Cool Britannia

12 mars 2024 | 41 min

Lovely Jubbly

5 mars 2024 | 28 min

Schnurrbart

27 februari 2024 | 35 min

Flow it, show it, grow it! This week Susie and Gyles look at the history and etymology of all things to do with hair.

Gyles takes us down memory lane and tells us about when he used to rock a full facial set (head to our social media pages for pics!)

And Susie does what she does best, by entertaining us with fascinating origin stories behind this luscious topic.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Tabanca: The pain of unrequited love.

Redamancy: The state of being loved in return.

Gruglede (Norwegian): Happy dread.

Gyles' poem this week was a excerpt from the song 'Hair' by the cast of 'Hair - The Musical'

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair

Flow it, show it

Long as God can grow it

My hair

Let it fly in the breeze

And get caught in the trees

Give a home to the fleas in my hair

A home for fleas

A hive for bees

A nest for birds

There ain't no words

For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder

Of my...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair

Flow it, show it

Long as God can grow it

My hair

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy

Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty

Oily, greasy, fleecy

Shining, gleaming, streaming

Flaxen, waxen

Knotted, polka-dotted

Twisted, beaded, braided

Powdered, flowered, and confettied

Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Oh say can you see

My eyes if you can

Then my hair's too short

Down to here

Down to there

I want hair

Down to where

It stops by itself

They'll be ga ga at the go go

When they see me in my toga

My toga made of blond

Brilliantined

Biblical hair

My hair like Jesus wore it

Hallelujah I adore it

Hallelujah Mary loved her son

Why don't my mother love me?

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair

Flow it, show it

Long as God can grow it

My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair

Flow it, show it

Long as God can grow it

My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair

Flow it, show it

Long as God can grow it

My hair

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Gategate

20 februari 2024 | 47 min

Bagpudding

13 februari 2024 | 31 min

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Love makes the world go round,

And so does etymology too!

Happy Valentines Day!

This week, Susie and Gyles explore the words of affection we used in our everyday vernacular... From darling, to cabbage(?!), to sweetie, to bae - we find out where these cutie-pie terms originate from. Also, Gyles tries to impress Susie this week with (what he thinks are) good chat up lines!

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Explaterate: to talk continuously; to bluster.

Twirlblast: (19th-century southern US) whirlwind.

Groaning cake: cake provided for those waiting on a woman to give birth.

Gyles' poem this week was 'How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level of every day’s

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

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Beatlemania

6 februari 2024 | 41 min

(H)aitch

30 januari 2024 | 49 min

Rizz

23 januari 2024 | 38 min

Semiquincentennial

16 januari 2024 | 47 min

Mafiosa

9 januari 2024 | 35 min

Pertolerate

2 januari 2024 | 40 min

Happy New Year, Purple People! We're kicking off 2024 by flicking through the pages of Gyles book' 'Word Play'. Join us and join in as we unpack and explore odd and unusual words in the English language.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Gorgonize: To have a mesmerising effect on someone

Lethophobia: The fear of oblivion.

Grubbling: Fumbling about in your bag or pocket in order to find something.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Tarantella' by Hilaire Belloc

Do you remember an Inn,

Miranda?

Do you remember an Inn?

And the tedding and the spreading

Of the straw for a bedding,

And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees,

And the wine that tasted of tar?

And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers

(Under the vine of the dark verandah)?

Do you remember an Inn, Miranda,

Do you remember an Inn?

And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteeers

Who hadn't got a penny,

And who weren't paying any,

And the hammer at the doors and the Din?

And the Hip! Hop! Hap!

Of the clap

Of the hands to the twirl and the swirl

Of the girl gone chancing,

Glancing,

Dancing,

Backing and advancing,

Snapping of a clapper to the spin

Out and in --

And the Ting, Tong, Tang, of the Guitar.

Do you remember an Inn,

Miranda?

Do you remember an Inn?

Never more;

Miranda,

Never more.

Only the high peaks hoar:

And Aragon a torrent at the door.

No sound

In the walls of the Halls where falls

The tread

Of the feet of the dead to the ground

No sound:

But the boom

Of the far Waterfall like Doom.

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Jollification (Santa Claus)

26 december 2023 | 43 min

NOTE: This episode is all about the LEGEND of Santa Claus. We advise you to not listen to this episode around young children.

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas Purple People! This week join Susie and Gyles as they discuss the legend of Santa Claus, and how this mystical figure has transformed through the decades.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Constellate: The gathering of people in a group.

Emacity: A fondness of buying things.

Erubescent: Red in the face, and a little bit flushed.

Gyles' poem this week was the end of 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' by Clement Clarke Moore

...

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.

His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

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Ragman roll

19 december 2023 | 31 min

Alphabetician

12 december 2023 | 40 min

Jump into the linguistic playground with Susie and Gyles as they spin through the magical world of alphabet this week. Join us for a joyous jaunt through the whimsical origins of our beloved alphabet. This week we go from A to E!

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Cattywampus: something that is in disarray.

Half pace: A landing in a stair which separates two flights of stairs.

Zoanthropy: a monomania in which a person believes himself changed into an animal and acts like one

Gyles' poem this week comes from one of our Purple People! It's called 'My Worry Tree' by Carol Mugano

I have a little worry tree,

I was given by a friend.

If I didn't have my worry tree,

I'd go right round the bend.

When things are getting stressful,

and particularly manic,

I know I have my worry tree,

so there's no need to panic.

I'm so fortunate to have this tree.

It's such a special kind.

It's not growing in my garden,

it's just planted in my mind.

So, whenever I am anxious,

and I don't know what to do,

I will go and find my worry tree,

and my big scissors, too.

Then, the subject of my worry,

that is causing so much grief,

I will scoop it up so gently,

and I'll place it on a leaf.

Then, with my enormous scissors,

The offending leaf I'll sever,

and I'll watch my worry blow away,

to disappear forever.

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Flappers

5 december 2023 | 42 min

Umpteen

28 november 2023 | 47 min

Gauntlet

21 november 2023 | 33 min

Sprogs

14 november 2023 | 41 min

Fandango de pokum

7 november 2023 | 32 min

Hygge

31 oktober 2023 | 38 min

HOT BEEF!

24 oktober 2023 | 35 min

Roots of Happiness

17 oktober 2023 | 34 min

Pingere

10 oktober 2023 | 44 min

This week Susie and Gyles dive into the linguistic canvas of words. Join use as we explore the rich tapestry of illustrations and pictures as we trace the origins of these expressive terms. Together let’s uncover the hidden strokes of meaning as we paint a linguistic masterpiece, exploring the artistry behind the words we use to capture and convey the visual world.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Eleutheromania: A frantic desire for freedom.

Selcouth: Unfamiliar, unusual, rare; strange, marvellous, wonderful.

Snuggery: A cosy or comfortable place, especially someone's private room or den.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Musée des Beaux Arts' by 'W. H. Auden'

About suffering they were never wrong,

The Old Masters: how well they understood

Its human position; how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just

walking dully along;

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting

For the miraculous birth, there always must be

Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating

On a pond at the edge of the wood:

They never forgot

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course

Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot

Where the dogs go on with their doggy

life and the torturer's horse

Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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Diva

3 oktober 2023 | 39 min

Archipelago

26 september 2023 | 40 min

Scrumdiddlyumptious

19 september 2023 | 31 min

In this week's gloriumptious episode, Susie & Gyles delve into the whimsical and wondrous world of Roald Dahl. Join us as we explore the enchanting etymology behind some of Dahl's most iconic words, and discover the linguistic magic that brings his tales to life.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Stumblebum: a punch-drunk, clumsy, or inept boxer.

Sleepify: to make sleepy.

Vidulous: somewhat greedy.

Gyles' poem this week was 'The Pig' by Roald Dahl.

In England once there lived a big

A wonderfully clever pig.

To everybody it was plain

That Piggy had a massive brain.

He worked out sums inside his head,

There was no book he hadn't read.

He knew what made an airplane fly,

He knew how engines worked and why.

He knew all this, but in the end

One question drove him round the bend:

He simply couldn't puzzle out

What LIFE was really all about.

What was the reason for his birth?

Why was he placed upon this earth?

His giant brain went round and round.

Alas, no answer could be found.

Till suddenly one wondrous night.

All in a flash he saw the light.

He jumped up like a ballet dancer

And yelled, "By gum, I've got the answer!"

"They want my bacon slice by slice

"To sell at a tremendous price!

"They want my tender juicy chops

"To put in all the butcher's shops!

"They want my pork to make a roast

"And that's the part'll cost the most!

"They want my sausages in strings!

"They even want my chitterlings!

"The butcher's shop! The carving knife!

"That is the reason for my life!"

Such thoughts as these are not designed

To give a pig great peace of mind.

Next morning, in comes Farmer Bland,

A pail of pigswill in his hand,

And piggy with a mighty roar,

Bashes the farmer to the floor…

Now comes the rather grizzly bit

So let's not make too much of it,

Except that you must understand

That Piggy did eat Farmer Bland,

He ate him up from head to toe,

Chewing the pieces nice and slow.

It took an hour to reach the feet,

Because there was so much to eat,

And when he finished, Pig, of course,

Felt absolutely no remorse.

Slowly he scratched his brainy head

And with a little smile he said,

"I had a fairly powerful hunch

"That he might have me for his lunch.

"And so, because I feared the worst,

"I thought I'd better eat him first."

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Raspis

12 september 2023 | 33 min

Auld Reekie

5 september 2023 | 36 min

Tittermatorter

29 augusti 2023 | 36 min

Cerealia

22 augusti 2023 | 38 min

Clarus

15 augusti 2023 | 34 min

Camelopard

8 augusti 2023 | 35 min

A Cat’s Whisker

1 augusti 2023 | 48 min

Green Fingers

25 juli 2023 | 35 min

Bazooka

18 juli 2023 | 41 min

This week, we traverse the lexicon landscape of the Second World War, unearthing the hidden treasures of word origins. Join us as Susie & Gyles unveil the remarkable tales behind wartime vocabulary, and reveal the extraordinary evolution of words shaped by the tumultuous era.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Niminy piminy: Feeble

Scringe: To screw up the face

Slapsauce: A glutton

Gyles' poem this week was 'Slough' by John Betjeman

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

It isn't fit for humans now,

There isn't grass to graze a cow.

Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens

Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,

Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,

Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-

A house for ninety-seven down

And once a week a half a crown

For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin

Who'll always cheat and always win,

Who washes his repulsive skin

In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak

And smash his hands so used to stroke

And stop his boring dirty joke

And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add

The profits of the stinking cad;

It's not their fault that they are mad,

They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know

The birdsong from the radio,

It's not their fault they often go

To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars

In various bogus-Tudor bars

And daren't look up and see the stars

But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care

Their wives frizz out peroxide hair

And dry it in synthetic air

And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough

To get it ready for the plough.

The cabbages are coming now;

The earth exhales.

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The Heavens Opened

11 juli 2023 | 31 min

Flizzoms

4 juli 2023 | 45 min

Porky pies

27 juni 2023 | 37 min

Scotch on the Rocks

20 juni 2023 | 40 min

Kismet

13 juni 2023 | 38 min

Pang Wangle

6 juni 2023 | 40 min

Folklore

30 maj 2023 | 42 min

This week Susie and Gyles delve into the spellbinding world of folklore and unravel the intricate tapestry of its etymology.

Together, they cover mystical creatures, elements and charms of this fictional realm.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Bywhopen (now obsolete): Made senseless; stupefied.

Heartspoon: A part of the breastbone.

Coccyx: a triangular arrangement of bone that makes up the very bottom portion of the spine below the sacrum.

Gyles' poem this week was ‘The ‘Fairies by William Allingham

Up the airy mountain,

Down the rushy glen,

We daren’t go a-hunting

For fear of little men;

Wee folk, good folk,

Trooping all together;

Green jacket, red cap,

And white owl’s feather!

Down along the rocky shore

Some make their home,

They live on crispy pancakes

Of yellow tide-foam;

Some in the reeds

Of the black mountain-lake,

With frogs for their watchdogs,

All night awake.

High on the hill-top

The old King sits;

He is now so old and grey

He’s nigh lost his wits.

With a bridge of white mist

Columbkill he crosses,

On his stately journeys

From Slieveleague to Rosses;

Or going up with music

On cold starry nights,

To sup with the Queen

Of the gay Northern Lights.

They stole little Bridget

For seven years long;

When she came down again

Her friends were all gone.

They took her lightly back,

Between the night and morrow,

They thought that she was fast asleep,

But she was dead with sorrow.

They have kept her ever since

Deep within the lake,

On a bed of flag-leaves,

Watching till she wake.

By the craggy hillside,

Through the mosses bare,

They have planted thorn trees

For pleasure, here and there.

Is any man so daring

As dig them up in spite,

He shall find their sharpest thorns

In his bed at night.

Up the airy mountain,

Down the rushy glen,

We daren’t go a-hunting

For fear of little men;

Wee folk, good folk,

Trooping all together;

Green jacket, red cap,

And white owl’s feather!

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Juggins

23 maj 2023 | 34 min

Panache

16 maj 2023 | 41 min

Let There Be Light

9 maj 2023 | 41 min

In this week’s dazzling episode, Susie and Gyles illuminate the fascinating etymological roots of everything to do with natural light phenomena. So, join us as we shine the spotlight on rainbows to supernovas!

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Poindexter: A boringly studious and socially inept person.

Skeuomorph: Something designed to look as though it does the job it is supposed to do.

Paralipsis: The device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing of a subject, as in not to mention their unpaid debts of several millions.

Gyles' poem this week:

Somewhere Over The Rainbow by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen

When all the world is a hopeless jumble

And the raindrops tumble all around,

Heaven opens a magic lane.

When all the clouds darken up the skyway

There's a rainbow highway to be found,

Leading from your window pane

To a place behind the sun,

Just a step beyond the rain.

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,

There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue,

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me.

Where troubles melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops,

That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.

Birds fly over the rainbow; why, then, oh why can't I?

Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me.

Where troubles melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops,

That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.

Birds fly over the rainbow; why, then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow,

Why, oh why can't I?

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Kummerspeck

2 maj 2023 | 37 min

Learning The Ropes

25 april 2023 | 41 min

Al-jabr

18 april 2023 | 33 min

Trumps

11 april 2023 | 41 min

Shoeburyness

4 april 2023 | 34 min

Come join Susie and Gyles for Part 2 of ‘The Purple People’s Linguistic Gaps’. To celebrate our 200th episode, we asked the Purple People for moments or experiences when they wished there was a specific word to describe it. Go listen back to our first instalment, ‘200 Today!’, and enjoy today’s follow up episode which is packed full of even more brilliant suggestions…

We’ll explore that sensation of believing there’s an extra step at the top of the stairs only to have your foot slam down onto thin air, if there’s a name for the first produce you receive from your garden, and if we can find an English equivalent for ‘dépayser’ (the feeling of being somewhere different, somewhere other than what you are used to).

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Fulminous: Resembling thunder and lightning

Bandersnatch: An uncouth individual

Dontopedology - The art of putting one's foot in one's mouth.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Life' by 'Charlotte Brontë'

Life, believe, is not a dream

So dark as sages say;

Oft a little morning rain

Foretells a pleasant day.

Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,

But these are transient all;

If the shower will make the roses bloom,

O why lament its fall?

Rapidly, merrily,

Life's sunny hours flit by,

Gratefully, cheerily

Enjoy them as they fly!

What though Death at times steps in,

And calls our Best away?

What though sorrow seems to win,

O'er hope, a heavy sway?

Yet Hope again elastic springs,

Unconquered, though she fell;

Still buoyant are her golden wings,

Still strong to bear us well.

Manfully, fearlessly,

The day of trial bear,

For gloriously, victoriously,

Can courage quell despair!

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Clatterfart

28 mars 2023 | 40 min

Walloping

21 mars 2023 | 38 min

Toni Morrison

14 mars 2023 | 35 min

Monopoly

7 mars 2023 | 33 min

The Purple Post Bag

28 februari 2023 | 41 min

Frasier

21 februari 2023 | 32 min

Erumpent

14 februari 2023 | 37 min

Undercrackers

7 februari 2023 | 43 min

We are diving beneath the surface today as we undress all the words related to your Undergarments at our live show at the Fortune Theatre.

Come learn how your undergarments are linked to garnish, why the bra used to be exclusively worn by men, what your stockings have in common with a murderous medieval contraption and which style of underwear is connected to the violin.

Susie will keep us in suspense whilst she divulges the origin of suspenders and Gyles shares his affinity for chest wigs in his younger days..

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Quockerwodger: A windsock or political puppet.

Purfled: Short of breath, especially when too lusty.

Puckfyst: Thirsty. The puckfyst is a `dried toadstool. Hence, "I feels puckfyst" means I feel as dry as a dried toadstool.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Macavity: The Mystery Cat' by 'T. S. Eliot'

Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw—

For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.

He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:

For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,

He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.

His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,

And when you reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!

You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air—

But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!

Macavity’s a ginger cat, he’s very tall and thin;

You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in.

His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;

His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.

He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;

And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s always wide awake.

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,

For he’s a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.

You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square—

But when a crime’s discovered, then Macavity’s not there!

He’s outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)

And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard’s.

And when the larder’s looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,

Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke’s been stifled,

Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair—

Ay, there’s the wonder of the thing! Macavity’s not there!

And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty’s gone astray,

Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,

There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair—

But it’s useless to investigate—Macavity’s not there!

And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:

‘It must have been Macavity!’—but he’s a mile away.

You’ll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs;

Or engaged in doing complicated long division sums.

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Mac&

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200 Today!

31 januari 2023 | 32 min

We have reached 200! That’s 200 episodes of Something Rhymes with Purple consisting of topics such as Drinking, Theatre, Death, Hair, Biscuits, School, Sex, Board Games, Fish, Cricket, Water Vessels.. The list is 200 items long!

To celebrate our 200th birthday, Susie and Gyles will dedicate it to the Purple People and spend the episode riffling through the dictionary as they seek to find the perfect word for those moments in life when the Purple People exclaim ‘there must be a word for that!?’.

We’ll be finding the perfect word to describe the frustration of a sneeze that doesn’t come to fruition, the experience of music moving you to tears, that pre-departure anxiety that renders you incapable of doing anything in the interim period and that disconcerting feeling when you occupy a seat on public transport that is still warm from its previous occupant…

Thank you so much to all the Purple People who sent in their brilliant suggestions - we try to answer as many of them as possible in this episode, but we will be doing a part 2 shortly as there were too many brilliant suggestions to get through in one episode..

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Gyles' poem this week was 'As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage]' by 'William Shakespeare'

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

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San Fran’s Disco

24 januari 2023 | 39 min

Thimble

17 januari 2023 | 29 min

Introducing... Please Tell Me A Story

16 januari 2023 | 1 min

Chandelier

10 januari 2023 | 41 min

Susie and Gyles are guiding us out of etymological darkness as they the light way to better understanding the world of light!

We’ll have many light bulb moments as we discover how extortion and contortion are twisted into the intriguing language of torches, what’s hiding in the sconce and why candles are candid.

Gyles shares his schoolboy days as a lighting technician of sorts whilst Susie continues to pull the plug on linguistic myths when answering this week’s Purple Peoples’ post. Susie and Gyles are guiding us out of etymological darkness as they the light way to better understanding the world of light!

We’ll have many light bulb moments as we discover how extortion and contortion are twisted into the intriguing language of torches, what’s hiding in the sconce and why candles are candid.

Gyles shares his schoolboy days as a lighting technician of sorts whilst Susie continues to pull the plug on linguistic myths when answering this week’s Purple Peoples’ post.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Peccable: Prone to sin. This is a rare example of a lost negative.

Leucocholy: A white Melancholy, a good easy sort of a state.

Uitwaaien (Dutch oot-vay-en): To clear the mind in windy weather.

Gyles reads The Midnight Skaters by Roger McGough

It is midnight in the ice rink

And all is cool and still.

Darkness seems to hold its breath

Nothing moves, until

Out of the kitchen, one by one,

The cutlery comes creeping,

Quiet as mice to the brink of the ice

While all the world is sleeping.

Then suddenly, a serving-spoon

Switches on the light,

And the silver swoops upon the ice

Screaming with delight.

The knives are high-speed skaters

Round and round they race,

Blades hissing, sissing,

Whizzing at a dizzy pace.

Forks twirl like dancers

Pirouetting on the spot.

Teaspoons (who take no chances)

Hold hands and giggle a lot.

All night long the fun goes on

Until the sun, their friend,

Gives the warning signal

That all good things must end.

So they slink back to the darkness

of the kitchen cutlery-drawer

And steel themselves to wait

Until it's time to skate once more.

At eight the canteen ladies

Breeze in as good as gold

To lay the tables and wonder

Why the cutlery is so cold.

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Elementary

3 januari 2023 | 34 min

It’s a smokin’ hot episode today people as we delve into the world of Smoking.

We’ll run into Colombos, Hamlet and Charles Dickens as we uncover why we have pipe dreams, why stogie cigars are linked to wagons, how pipes and musical instruments are connected and that the original meaning of blowing smoke up someone’s arse is very different from today’s..

Susie will make sure our understanding of smoking idioms is up to snuff and Gyles shares tales of an icon of his that is synonymous with the pipe.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Twithought: A fleeting thought

Potgun: Something that makes a lot of noise but that is ultimately irrelevant.

Holy Willie: hypocritically pious person

Gyles reads ‘Fall’ by Connie Bensley

When you’re falling

Expect a split second of thought

before you hit the stone, stair or ground

How to use it?

Worrying about the dog? No

Regretting your ancient underwear? No

Cursing the car which is careering towards you? No

Use this tick of time to turn your head in such a way

that your teeth avoid the primary impact

This will enable you to smile at the first responder

When he bends to lift you with his big hands out of the gutter

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Spatchcock

27 december 2022 | 41 min

Recorded live at the Fortune Theatre on Sunday 20th November 2022.

Tis’ that peculiar time between Christmas and New Year when we might find ourselves overindulging and spending a lot of time in the kitchen. Therefore, Susie and Gyles are here to make you feel that little bit more informed about the methods of cooking that have come to create that mince pie you might be eating whilst you get your Purple fix this week.

We’ll discover what stews, steamed baths and typhoid have in common, why getting the wrong end of the stick is mucky business and why receiving a roasting when you fail to complete your roster of duties is more appropriate than you think.

Susie and Gyles challenge the audience to teach them how to poach an egg and they discover - thanks to audience member and Purple Person, Professor Hansen - why the loser gets a wooden spoon.

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If you’ve ever thought ‘There must be a word for that?’, then now is your chance to ask Susie and Gyles! To celebrate the 200th Episode of Something Rhymes with Purple, Susie and Gyles are challenging the Purple People to submit the linguistic gaps they want filling. Please email [email protected] with the subject line, ‘Is there a word for?’ Please submit entries by the 31st December.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Ferntickle: a freckle (15th century: A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern’)

Bodkin: a small dagger. Mentioned in Chaucer’s, ‘The Reeve’s Tale’

Kickshaw: an elaborate but disappointing meal, from the French ‘quelque chose’.

Gyles reads ‘Don't Worry if Your Job Is Small’ by Anonymous

Don't worry if your job is small,

And your rewards are few.

Remember that the mighty oak,

Was once a nut like you.

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Ambassador Satch

20 december 2022 | 36 min

Come discover what the $10 note might have to do with Dixieland, why the city of Orleans was ‘made new’ and what ‘Mile High Ice Cream Pie’ is as we arrive at the city of New Orleans for our 3rd stop on our North America road trip.

Susie and Gyles explore the food, the language and the Jazz Culture of one of Gyles’ favourite places in the world and he makes sure that Susie has put the city of New Orleans on her bucket list by the end of the episode.

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If you’ve ever thought ‘There must be a word for that?’, then now is your chance to ask Susie and Gyles! To celebrate the 200th Episode of Something Rhymes with Purple, Susie and Gyles are challenging the Purple People to submit the linguistic gaps they want filling. Please email [email protected] with the subject line, ‘Is there a word for?’ Please submit entries by the 31st December.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Nubiferous: full of clouds

Nubbled: covered in small lumps (bumfled)

Frugalist (19th century): a belt-tightener

Gyles reads ‘We have not long to love’ by Tennessee Williams

We have not long to love.

Light does not stay.

The tender things are those

we fold away.

Coarse fabrics are the ones

for common wear.

In silence I have watched you

comb your hair.

Intimate the silence,

dim and warm.

I could but did not, reach

to touch your arm.

I could, but do not, break

that which is still.

(Almost the faintest whisper

would be shrill.)

So moments pass as though

they wished to stay.

We have not long to love.

A night. A day....

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Lanolin

13 december 2022 | 34 min

It’s a knit and natter kind of episode today Purple People, as we unravel the words and phrases that are woven throughout the world of knitting.

We’ll unstitch the mystery of what frogs have to do with knitting mistakes, how a lawyer’s wig pulled the wool over our eyes, what stitches and sticks have in common and Susie advises Gyles to avoid knitted underwear as she is certain it will cause him shivviness - the feeling of roughness caused by a new undergarment.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Metopomancy: Divination by the (lines on the) forehead or face.

Hamsterkauf - Panic buying.

Egg of Colombus - A brilliant idea that seems easy once you know how.

Gyles reads ‘Requiescat’ by Oscar Wilde

Tread lightly, she is near

Under the snow,

Speak gently, she can hear

The daisies grow.

All her bright golden hair

Tarnished with rust,

She that was young and fair

Fallen to dust.

Lily-like, white as snow,

She hardly knew

She was a woman, so

Sweetly she grew.

Coffin-board, heavy stone,

Lie on her breast,

I vex my heart alone,

She is at rest.

Peace, Peace, she cannot hear

Lyre or sonnet,

All my life's buried here,

Heap earth upon it.

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Rex

6 december 2022 | 34 min

It’s the real deal today Purple People as we enter the palace courtesy of Tour Guide Gyles for a Royal episode. Come discover why Sovereign is ‘super’, how the King was a family man, why real tennis isn’t royal at all and how elevation was the key to prominence in the monarchy.

Gyles seems in need of a pizza delivery service during our correspondence section thanks to Purple Person, Quentin Lotte and Susie’s trio takes us down the pub to meet the Knight of the Sprigot but make sure you don’t have a lanspresados as company!

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: Intumescence: bubblement; excitement: anticipation. Knight of the Spigot: a party host or pub landlord/lady. Lanspresado: one who comes to the pub with only a handful of change in their pocket.

Gyles reads ‘The King’s Breakfast’ by A.A. Milne

The King asked

The Queen, and

The Queen asked

The Dairymaid:

"Could we have some butter for

The Royal slice of bread?"

The Queen asked the Dairymaid,

The Dairymaid

Said, "Certainly,

I'll go and tell the cow

Now

Before she goes to bed."

The Dairymaid

She curtsied,

And went and told

The Alderney:

"Don't forget the butter for

The Royal slice of bread."

The Alderney

Said sleepily:

"You'd better tell

His Majesty

That many people nowadays

Like marmalade

Instead."

The Dairymaid

Said, "Fancy!"

And went to

Her Majesty.

She curtsied to the Queen, and

She turned a little red:

"Excuse me,

Your Majesty,

For taking of

The liberty,

But marmalade is tasty, if

It's very

Thickly

Spread."

The Queen said

"Oh!:

And went to

His Majesty:

"Talking of the butter for

The royal slice of bread,

Many people

Think that

Marmalade

Is nicer.

Would you like to try a little

Marmalade

Instead?"

The King said,

"Bother!"

And then he said,

"Oh, deary me!"

The King sobbed,

"Oh, deary me!"

And went back to bed.

"Nobody,"

He whimpered,

"Could call me

A fussy man;

I only want

A little bit

Of butter for

My bread!"

The Queen said,

"There, there!"

And went to

The Dairymaid.

The Dairymaid

Said, "There, there!"

And went to the shed.&a

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Xocolatl

29 november 2022 | 30 min

It’s a chock-a-block episode today as we dive into the chocolate box to discover how our favourite fillings got their names.

We’ll hear the ‘sweet’ story that gave us the Praline, what a horse's lower jaw and Ganache have in common and why the strong smelling fungus and the lovely truffle filling are etymological twins.

Susie takes us back to university in search for the origin of being ’Toffee nosed’ and Gyles shares an extract from a recent book purchase which adds a purr-fect addition to this ever so sweet episode.

We also launch our 200th Episode Challenge where we are asking the Purple People to tell Gyles and Susie about any linguistic gaps that they want filling! Ever experienced a feeling and thought, ‘There must be a word for that?’ Then put it to Susie and Gyles and see if they can find the answer. Susie and Gyles also want to hear your suggestions so it’s time for us all to be etymology detectives! Please email [email protected] with the subject line, ‘Is there a word for?’ Please submit entries by the 31st December.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Bibacity: the quality of ‘drinking much’

Ribroast: give a good talking to

Timepleaser: one who complies with the prevailing agreements no matter what they are.

Gyles read ‘Magic’ by John K. Harris

Writing is a magic kind of caper
It really is remarkable to think
Here we have a simple piece of paper
With spells upon it, printed out in ink

To conjure up my voice inside your head
I’m speaking to you from inside your brain
Or is this your voice that you hear instead?
Or maybe, more a mixture of the twain?

For when I write down ‘I’ do I mean ‘me’?
Or reading, do you think that ‘I’ is ‘you’?
From where I sit inside your skull I see
that while I’m here you’re there, but I’m there too

So while you read this sonnet rhyme by rhyme
we’re in at least two places at one time.

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AMERIGO

22 november 2022 | 33 min

Etiquette

15 november 2022 | 28 min

Mortarboard

8 november 2022 | 37 min

Recorded live at the Oxford Playhouse on Sunday 9th October 2021.

Gyles and Susie explore the wordy world of Universities as they return to their University home of Oxford.

Come discover what seminars have in common with semen, how gold tassels gave us the term ’Toff’, why the mortarboard and the pestle & mortar are linked and Susie shares the ultimate excuse for bunking off class early to go for a drink down The White Rabbit (an Oxford pub named after Oxford resident, Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

Gyles teaches Susie what it means to 'sport one's oak' and Susie shares some further sporting references revealing why chess boards and dominoes are also linked to University life.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Peristeronic - of or relating to pigeons.

Hirquiticke - horny teenager

Backspang - a loophole that allows you to renege on a deal.

Gyles read ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;

Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree

And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two!

And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head

He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Poltergeist

1 november 2022 | 30 min

It’s a spooky one for you Purple People as we transcend to the world of the supernatural for an etymological seance with ghosts and poltergeists.

Discover what blazing fires and the ethereal have in common, why we climb to 7th heaven and why the mystics are so close to their secrets.

Susie will tell us why our faulty applicants give up the ghost and Gyles shares a story that packs a punch..of should we say, a fright!

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Kalopsia - The delusion of things being more beautiful than they are

Mumpish - Feeling sullen, cranky, withdrawn and glum

Simchaa - A word from Hebrew meaning gladness and joy

Gyles read ‘Dark, dark wood’, a story developed by Cambridge English Online on behalf of the British Council.

In the dark, dark wood, there was a dark, dark house.

And in that dark, dark house, there was a dark, dark room.

And in that dark, dark room, there was a dark, dark cupboard.

And in that dark, dark cupboard, there was a dark, dark shelf.

And on that dark, dark shelf, there was a dark, dark box.

And in that dark, dark box, there was a ghost.

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Jujube

25 oktober 2022 | 38 min

Mounties

18 oktober 2022 | 42 min

Time to don your toque and get cozy in your bunnyhug Purple People because today we are beginning our North American tour and our first destination is Canada, Ey!

We’ll warm up with a steaming bowl of Poutine followed by a double-double and a few Timbits as we get on the (etymological) road stopping along the way at Newfoundland and the ‘Capcity’, Ottawa.

Talks of Newfoundland lead Gyles to share stories of his ‘most magical, musical’ evening at the theatre seeing a show about the island but that’s not before we have a triple Canadian name drop and discover that Gyles himself has Canadian blood! Susie’s dendrophile nature is perfectly placed to explore the wilderness of Canada but it’s the ice hockey that has her sharing a long lost dream of performing a deke on the ice.

We’ll take a small trip with the mounties before settling down for a Jiggs Dinner for a couple of Twoonies and a bit of cloffin by the fire.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Cloffin: to warm yourself by the fire and to warm the back of your legs specially, that is Brabbag

Exlex - An outlaw

Fysifunkus: One with no curiosity at all

Gyles' poem this week was 'Variations on the Word Love' by Margaret Atwood

This is a word we use to plug

holes with. It’s the right size for those warm

blanks in speech, for those red heart-

shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing

like real hearts. Add lace

and you can sell

it. We insert it also in the one empty

space on the printed form

that comes with no instructions. There are whole

magazines with not much in them

but the word love, you can

rub it all over your body and you

can cook with it too. How do we know

it isn’t what goes on at the cool

debaucheries of slugs under damp

pieces of cardboard? As for the weed-

seedlings nosing their tough snouts up

among the lettuces, they shout it.

Love! Love! sing the soldiers, raising

their glittering knives in salute.

Then there’s the two

of us. This word

is far too short for us, it has only

four letters, too sparse

to fill those deep bare

vacuums between the stars

that press on us with their deafness.

It’s not love we don’t wish

to fall into, but that fear.

this word is not enough but it will

have to do. It’s a single

vowel in this metallic

silence, a mouth that says

O again and again in wonder

and pain, a breath, a finger

grip on a cliffside. You can

hold on or let go.

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Emovere

11 oktober 2022 | 36 min

Hello Purple People, have you ever found yourself experiencing a particular feeling or emotion and wondering, ‘there must be a word for that’?

Well luckily for us, so has our very own Susie Dent!

From the way to describe those blues you get on a Sunday evening at the prospect of work the next day - the Mubblefubbles - to that irresistible desire to do something unwise - cacoethes. Susie will take us through a selection of her favourite words from her new book, An Emotional Dictionary, so you are never lost for words again.

Next time you go to the hair dressers where you are horrified by the result, you’ll know exactly how to describe it!

Waterstones are offering an exclusive discount just for Purple People. Simply visit waterstones.com and enter the promo code EMOTION22 during checkout for a £3 discount on the hardback of An Emotional Dictionary. That’s E-M-O-T-I-O-N and the number 22. Offer ends 30th Nov 2022.

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Gyles' poem this week was 'Buckingham Palace' by A. A. Milne

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
Alice is marrying one of the guard.
"A soldier's life is terrible hard,"
Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
We saw a guard in a sentry-box.
"One of the sergeants looks after their socks,"
Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
We looked for the King, but he never came.
"Well, God take care of him, all the same,"
Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They've great big parties inside the grounds.
"I wouldn't be King for a hundred pounds,"
Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A face looked out, but it wasn't the King's.
"He's much too busy a-signing things,"
Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
"Do you think the King knows all about me?"
"Sure to, dear, but it's time for tea,"
Says Alice.

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Tintinnabulation

4 oktober 2022 | 43 min

Welcome back to Something Rhymes with Purple for our first show in our Autumn tour! Recorded live at the Fortune Theatre in London, Susie and Gyles arrived with bells and whistles on for an etymological exploration into the world of bells, specifically the Capital’s Big Ben.

There was much tintinnabulation (as much as Gyles tried to derail this) and our lovely audience of Purple People got to discover the links between cups and chimes, why bells were responsible for re-naming the belfry tower, and why Swiss Cow Bells are nostalgic.

We were saved by the bell once discussions of ringing one’s bell went a little too far and Gyles got his (metaphorical) catsuit on to give us a stunning rendition of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Gus: The Theatre Cat’ from Eliot’s Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Matter-fangled: to have got into a muddle while talking

Rackups: your just desserts

Quanker: someone who settles a dispute

Gyles' poem this week was 'Gus: The Theatre Cat' by 'T.S. Eliot'

Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.

His name, as I ought to have told you before,

Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss

To pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.

His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake,

And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake.

Yet he was, in his youth, quite the smartest of Cats--

But no longer a terror to mice and to rats.

For he isn't the Cat that he was in his prime;

Though his name was quite famous, he says, in its time.

And whenever he joins his friends at their club

(Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub)

He loves to regale them, if someone else pays,

With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days.

For he once was a Star of the highest degree--

He has acted with Irving, he's acted with Tree.

And he likes to relate his success on the Halls,

Where the Gallery once gave him seven cat-calls.

But his grandest creation, as he loves to tell,

Was Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.

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Dragoon

27 september 2022 | 36 min

Don your armour and grab your steed, Purple people because today we are galloping onto the battle field to uncover the etymological treasures of Weaponry.

From biting bullets to smoking guns, Susie will guide us through the link between rainbows and archery, what the Armadillo has to do with armoury and why freelancers weren’t always that friendly. Gyles shares some further behind-the-scenes details of one of the most watched events on tele which leads into discussions of corona (but not that corona) and why it’s courteous to curtsy.

Susie and Gyles have their weekly dose of three scintillating words and a delicious poem for us and as always, they want to hear from you!

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Kalokagathia: Nobility and goodness of character

Nidification: to build a nest and retreat for a while

Polydipsia: A great thirst (usually in a figurative sense eg. for fame)

Gyles' poem this week was ‘To You’ by Langston Hughes

To sit down and dream,

To sit and read,

To sit and learn about the world

Outside our world of here and now-

Our problem world-

To dream of vast horizons of the soul

Through dreams made whole,

Unfettered free-help me!

All you who are dreamers,too,

Help me to make our world anew.

I reach out my dreams to you.

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An update from the Purple Plus Club…

22 september 2022 | 1 min

Cobbler

20 september 2022 | 35 min

It’s time to take a trip to the bakery Purple People where we will run into Lords and Ladies, horses and testicles as we explore the shelves of bread.

Come discover why the upper crust really is better, what bread rolls and parchment have in common, how lumps and humps gave name to Nubbys and Cobs and why having butter with your chip butty is essential.

Gyles shares his latest ‘Oh Crumbs!’ moment and Susie tells us about her Sourdough Bread making adventure.

It really is the best thing since sliced bread…

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Overmorrow - The day after tomorrow

Roucoulement: The gentle cooing of doves

Yesterfang: That which was caught or taken yesterday

Gyles' poem this week was 'The Mower' by ‘Philip Larkin'

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found

A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,

Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.

Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world

Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.

The first day after a death, the new absence

Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind

While there is still time.

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Water Vessels

13 september 2022 | 37 min

Gymnasium

6 september 2022 | 44 min

Barocco

30 augusti 2022 | 38 min

kê-tsiap

23 augusti 2022 | 44 min

What’s small and red and speaks with a husky voice? A hoarse radish! (groan!) And Purple People, that’s what we have on the table for you today.

We are exploring the condiments box so pull up a chair and get ready for some spicy chat!

We’ll learn how a fishy trade with South East Asia gave us one of our most beloved red accompaniments, before we stop off at Branston Lodge in Burton-upon-Trent to taste one of the most popular pickles around.

Elsewhere, Gyles takes us on a saucy tour of the Houses of Parliament and Susie explains why being 'mustard' is a compliment you should be happy to receive.

We’ll hear from some wonderful Purple People in this week's correspondence and Gyles finds inspiration in the nation's favourite brown sauce for today’s poem.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Äugend and Addend. - In a simple equation, (e.g. 3+4) The first number is the augend and the number that is added to it is the addend.

Amatorculist - Someone who trifles with your emotions and leaves you heartbroken.

Hirquiticke: a horny teenager; "one past fourteene yeeres of age, beginning to bee moved with Venus delight" (Henry Cockeram, An English Dictionary, 1623)

Gyles’ poem was: Mary Wilson - On the Death of Harold Wilson

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16 augusti 2022 | 40 min

Ultracrepidarian

9 augusti 2022 | 48 min

Feles

2 augusti 2022 | 39 min

Cackletub

26 juli 2022 | 44 min

Chiaroscuro

19 juli 2022 | 37 min

Googly

12 juli 2022 | 38 min

Vespa

5 juli 2022 | 39 min

Tantalus

28 juni 2022 | 34 min

Swazzle

21 juni 2022 | 39 min

Phloem

14 juni 2022 | 45 min

Electrick

7 juni 2022 | 35 min

Chenille

31 maj 2022 | 37 min

Furlong

24 maj 2022 | 38 min

The Purple People Eater

17 maj 2022 | 42 min

Ichthyologist

10 maj 2022 | 39 min

Best of SRWP Vol. 3

3 maj 2022 | 41 min

Bokeh

26 april 2022 | 41 min

Tidsoptomist

19 april 2022 | 41 min

E.T.

12 april 2022 | 34 min

Usquebaugh

5 april 2022 | 39 min

Saddle-goose

29 mars 2022 | 44 min

Pea Green Boat

22 mars 2022 | 42 min

Triskaidekaphobia

15 mars 2022 | 36 min

Hepeating

8 mars 2022 | 49 min

Galvanise

1 mars 2022 | 45 min

Tufty

22 februari 2022 | 39 min

Chatoyant

15 februari 2022 | 34 min

PM

8 februari 2022 | 40 min

Ataraxy

1 februari 2022 | 48 min

Schuss

25 januari 2022 | 40 min

Foolhappy

18 januari 2022 | 43 min

Chum (Recorded live at Chichester Festival Theatre)

11 januari 2022 | 34 min

AM

4 januari 2022 | 48 min

Tipple

28 december 2021 | 31 min

Gregarious

21 december 2021 | 38 min

Hooch

14 december 2021 | 41 min

Curglaff

7 december 2021 | 33 min

Cybernetic

30 november 2021 | 36 min

Barmpot

23 november 2021 | 37 min

Flenched

16 november 2021 | 34 min

SRWP Live in BATH 20th November

11 november 2021 | 1 min

Jerkwater

9 november 2021 | 38 min

Firgun

2 november 2021 | 33 min

Scoff

26 oktober 2021 | 37 min

Glisters

19 oktober 2021 | 40 min

Just A Minute

12 oktober 2021 | 35 min

Prepone

5 oktober 2021 | 39 min

Masheen

28 september 2021 | 42 min

Mausolos

21 september 2021 | 34 min

Pluffy

14 september 2021 | 38 min

Big Top

7 september 2021 | 37 min

Grok

31 augusti 2021 | 41 min

Icarus

24 augusti 2021 | 38 min

Merry-go-sorry

17 augusti 2021 | 48 min

Naff

10 augusti 2021 | 37 min

Podiuming

3 augusti 2021 | 35 min

Tuxedo Park

27 juli 2021 | 38 min

Bulge Bracket

20 juli 2021 | 36 min

Mappemonde

13 juli 2021 | 38 min

A Floral Balls Up

6 juli 2021 | 39 min

Paronomasia

29 juni 2021 | 34 min

Campus Martius

22 juni 2021 | 42 min

Pocket Monster

15 juni 2021 | 43 min

Tattarrattat

8 juni 2021 | 36 min

S.W.A.L.K.

1 juni 2021 | 36 min

Octopodes

25 maj 2021 | 37 min

Neptune’s Dandruff

18 maj 2021 | 33 min

Lovely Jubbly!

11 maj 2021 | 36 min

Prestidigitation

4 maj 2021 | 44 min

Caput

27 april 2021 | 34 min

Tandem

20 april 2021 | 42 min

Slughorn

13 april 2021 | 41 min

Best of SRWP Vol. 2

6 april 2021 | 42 min

Snakes, Ladders and a Live show!

30 mars 2021 | 53 min

Show notes: Hello Purple People, Word Nerds and to all of you who joined us live last Thursday but are loyally listening again! In this, our 104th Episode, we are LIVE on our two year anniversary and what better way to celebrate than with all of you, watching and listening from all over the planet!

Susie is cat-bombed, Gyles’ jumpers are extraordinary and a mystery man makes an appearance…

You won’t be bored of the board game chat, Susie impresses with her poker face and a rather witty Purple Person on Twitter has an excellent suggestion for a game of Gyles Name-drop bingo!

We also answer some excellent Purple Post: Natalie wants to know why you can log in, log in a book and if logs coming from trees have anything to do with it; Helen wonders whether a bread roll or bread cake is better; and they say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks but Craig’s guide dog Bruce may think that’s a terrible cliché, and just who are we calling old anyway?

How well do you know Susie’s trio? Each week Susie gives us three magnificent words to bolster our vocabulary but how much attention are you paying?

Here is one of those words and three possible definitions…

The word is SEQUACIOUS…

a) someone who squirrels things away for safe keeping

b) someone who acts in a manner outside of the church’s teachings

c) someone who follows a person or philosophy without independence of thought

Congratulations to our live show trio trivia winners, Theresa, Ben and Petrina!

Gyles unusual scrabble words for your next game:

AA: Volcanic Lava

Bambi: Born Again Middle-aged Biker

Boo-bird: Someone who boos

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23 mars 2021 | 41 min

Phobophobia

16 mars 2021 | 45 min

Gongoozle

9 mars 2021 | 44 min

We are 100 today! Let’s party!

2 mars 2021 | 40 min

Something Rhymes With Purple LIVE – Thursday 25th March 2021

27 februari 2021 | 1 min

Pettifogger

23 februari 2021 | 46 min

Pity Me

16 februari 2021 | 40 min

Protest

9 februari 2021 | 47 min

Zarf

2 februari 2021 | 43 min

Purpuriam (Pp)

26 januari 2021 | 45 min

Torquemada

19 januari 2021 | 39 min

Testiculos habet et bene pendentes

12 januari 2021 | 44 min

Purple Post

5 januari 2021 | 50 min

Words Of The Year 2020

29 december 2020 | 44 min

What the Dickens?

22 december 2020 | 46 min

Stuff

15 december 2020 | 39 min

Libido

8 december 2020 | 40 min

Treacle

1 december 2020 | 40 min

Whitehall 1212

24 november 2020 | 37 min

Black Friday Merch!

23 november 2020 | 2 min

Marchioness

17 november 2020 | 35 min

Penne For Your thoughts

10 november 2020 | 37 min

Beatification

3 november 2020 | 39 min

Sinister

27 oktober 2020 | 45 min

Skiving

20 oktober 2020 | 43 min

Snickerdoodle

13 oktober 2020 | 45 min

Katzenjammer

6 oktober 2020 | 47 min

Introducing... The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq

2 oktober 2020 | 5 min

Hot Beef!

29 september 2020 | 40 min

Cackleberry

22 september 2020 | 38 min

Vedettes

15 september 2020 | 42 min

Nutmeg

8 september 2020 | 37 min

Phylactology

1 september 2020 | 39 min

Boffola

25 augusti 2020 | 46 min

Dr. Johnson

18 augusti 2020 | 38 min

Dwile Flonking

11 augusti 2020 | 39 min

The Milky Way

4 augusti 2020 | 40 min

Mildred

28 juli 2020 | 34 min

Humpty Dumpty

21 juli 2020 | 40 min

Literally...

14 juli 2020 | 41 min

Horripilation

7 juli 2020 | 36 min

All That Jazz

30 juni 2020 | 35 min

Plings & Bangs!

23 juni 2020 | 45 min

Lethologica

16 juni 2020 | 44 min

Brand new merch!

10 juni 2020 | 2 min

Edelweiss

9 juni 2020 | 39 min

Euphuism

2 juni 2020 | 37 min

Guttersnipes

26 maj 2020 | 36 min

Filer à l'anglaise

19 maj 2020 | 41 min

Yakamoz

12 maj 2020 | 38 min

John Doe

5 maj 2020 | 40 min

Alcatraz

28 april 2020 | 36 min

By and large

21 april 2020 | 42 min

When in Rome...

15 april 2020 | 37 min

Easter update

12 april 2020 | 3 min

Cerulean

7 april 2020 | 46 min

Umpteen

31 mars 2020 | 41 min

Best of SRWP

24 mars 2020 | 38 min

Boycott

17 mars 2020 | 36 min

Ceiliog

10 mars 2020 | 36 min

Grockle

3 mars 2020 | 33 min

Namby-Pamby

25 februari 2020 | 30 min

Smuggins

18 februari 2020 | 37 min

The Blind Leading The Blind

11 februari 2020 | 26 min

Bizzies and Kirtles

4 februari 2020 | 32 min

Macushla

28 januari 2020 | 39 min

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

21 januari 2020 | 38 min

We Have Our Own Merch!

20 januari 2020 | 1 min

Dexter

14 januari 2020 | 35 min

Leather-arse

7 januari 2020 | 29 min

Le Pétomane

24 december 2019 | 40 min

Tawdry

17 december 2019 | 32 min

Nipcheese

10 december 2019 | 30 min

Pissabed

3 december 2019 | 33 min

Hysteria

26 november 2019 | 29 min

Grog-blossom

19 november 2019 | 32 min

Nemophilism

12 november 2019 | 33 min

Cacafuego

5 november 2019 | 29 min

Gobelinus

29 oktober 2019 | 30 min

Haddaway

22 oktober 2019 | 30 min

Cachinnator

15 oktober 2019 | 24 min

Podiacide

8 oktober 2019 | 33 min

Thunderplump

1 oktober 2019 | 27 min

Sphallolalia

24 september 2019 | 29 min

Quisquilious

17 september 2019 | 29 min

Testiculate

10 september 2019 | 33 min

Gyldenbollockes

3 september 2019 | 28 min

Corpsicle

27 augusti 2019 | 29 min

Brabble

20 augusti 2019 | 33 min

Zwoddery

13 augusti 2019 | 39 min

Firkytoodle

6 augusti 2019 | 33 min

Pumpernickel

30 juli 2019 | 40 min

Dogsbody

23 juli 2019 | 36 min

Twazzy

16 juli 2019 | 30 min

Tosspot

9 juli 2019 | 29 min

Fartcatcher

2 juli 2019 | 35 min

Oxtercog

25 juni 2019 | 32 min

Jirble

18 juni 2019 | 36 min

Fobly-Mobly

11 juni 2019 | 31 min

Battology

4 juni 2019 | 34 min

Eggcorns

28 maj 2019 | 30 min

Tartle

21 maj 2019 | 32 min

Matutolypea

14 maj 2019 | 35 min

Ugsome

7 maj 2019 | 39 min

Crambazzled

30 april 2019 | 31 min

Gargalesis

23 april 2019 | 34 min

Lalochezia

16 april 2019 | 33 min

Scurryfunge

9 april 2019 | 36 min

Bang-a-bonk

2 april 2019 | 36 min

Something Rhymes With Purple

19 mars 2019 | 1 min

Something Rhymes with Purple

Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth invite you to enhance your vocabulary, uncover the hidden origins of language and share their love of words in this award-winning podcast.

Om podden

Avsnitt

Thank You and Farewell!

Portcullis

Sorbetto

Elixir

Hades

Nirvana

Garbelage

Sabana

Saudade

Pizzicato

Murdre

Hupnos

Mundungus

Botulus

Fascicles

Bafflegab

Oxford, Gibson and Brogue

Happy Birthday Gyles!

Treasure House

Cool Britannia

Lovely Jubbly

Schnurrbart

Gategate

Bagpudding

Beatlemania

(H)aitch

Rizz

Semiquincentennial

Mafiosa

Pertolerate

Jollification (Santa Claus)

Ragman roll

Alphabetician

Flappers

Umpteen

Gauntlet

Sprogs

Fandango de pokum

Hygge

HOT BEEF!

Roots of Happiness

Pingere

Diva

Archipelago

Scrumdiddlyumptious

Raspis

Auld Reekie

Tittermatorter

Cerealia

Clarus

Camelopard

A Cat’s Whisker

Green Fingers

Bazooka

The Heavens Opened

Flizzoms

Porky pies

Scotch on the Rocks

Kismet

Pang Wangle

Folklore

Juggins

Panache

Let There Be Light

Kummerspeck

Learning The Ropes

Al-jabr

Trumps

Shoeburyness

Clatterfart

Walloping

Toni Morrison

Monopoly

The Purple Post Bag

Frasier

Erumpent