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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.
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Wow, this is the final episode of Something Rhymes With Purple. Susie, Gyles, and all of us at Purple HQ want to say a massive THANK YOU for being the best audience in the whole wide world.
We have had such fun making these episodes, and of course we had to finish with a listener correspondence special.
Thank you for an amazing 5 years. SRWP - over and out!
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Optriculum: Something whose name you can’t remember for the moment.
Discumgalligumfricated:Greatly astonished but pleased.
Hiptiminigy: A cry that expressed exuberance of spirit.
Gyles' poem this week was the infamous 'Our Revels Now Are Ended' quote by Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
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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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You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Join Susie and Gyles this week as they take us on a delicious journey, unpacking the history behind ice cream flavour names.
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Blowsing: Red-faced and somewhat dishevelled; having a blowsy appearance or quality.
Toodley-oodley: All fine and dandy.
Ferricadouzer: A knockout blow.
Gyles' poem this week was 'The End' by Alistair McGowan
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This week Susie and Gyles explore the wonderful ancient world of alchemy... And have a big announcement to make straight from Purple HQ.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Hookum Snivy: Petty; deceitful, sneaky.
Pickthank: A person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip.
Highmadandy: A person that has more money than sense.
Gyles' poem this week was 'A New Double Act' by Alistair McGowan
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This week, Susie and Gyles explore the fiery (under)world of Hell. Join us as we unpack the infernal regions, a place of torment for the wicked after death.
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Accismus: The feigned refusal of something you really want.
Redeless: Destitute of counsel - lacking advice.
Vilipend: To condemn or despise.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Tender-heartedness' by Harry Graham
Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burned to ashes;
Now, although the room grows chilly,
I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.
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This week, Susie and Gyles explore heaven. Join us as we uncover the historical, linguistic, and cultural roots of this divine subject.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Splurgundy (Australian English): Sparkling burgundy.
Scrouge: To encroach on someone’s personal space.
Sardonian: One who flatters with deadly intent.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Where We Began' by Irving Berlin
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek
Heaven, I'm in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak
When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek
Oh, I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn't thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh, I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Dance with me
I want my arm about you
The charm about you
Will carry me through to Heaven
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This week Susie and Gyles are talking dirty. No, not in that way, get your head out of the gutter... Literally.
Join us as we explore where words such as 'trash', 'garbage', 'litter' and 'trash' originate from.
So tune in and let's talk all kinds of rubbish together!
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Rumptydooler: Something excellent.
(rattlers, rippers, ripsnorters, roarers, clinkers, corkers, fizzers, screamers, sneezers, hummers, dingers, humdingers, and rumptydoolers
Solivagant: Wandering alone.
Nod-crafty: Having the knack of nodding the head with an air of great understanding, when you actually tuned out ages ago.
Gyles' poem this week was 'If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking' by Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
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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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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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Join us on a rhythmic journey through the history of one of the most iconic genres of music... JAZZ! Susie and Gyles dive deep into the origins and evolution of the term that defines a genre full of creativity, spontaneity, and soul.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Pelagic: Concerning the seas.
Galumptious: Tiptop; first rate.
Pursive: Short-winded.
Gyles' poem this week was 'To Dream In Jazz'
To Dream in Jazz,
Is to become Jazz,
Close your eyes and listen,
Go to where Jazz becomes life
When your eyes reopen,
You'll become Jazz,
Your words will sing the blues.
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Join Susuie and Gyles this week as they unravel the linguistic roots behind murder. From the ancient origins of 'homicide' to the sinister evolution of 'assassination', we uncover the words we use to describe humanity's darkest deeds.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Suasible: Susceptible to persuasion.
Rannygazoo: Nonsense.
Fudgel: To make a big show of working whilst doing nothing at all.
Gyles' poem this week was 'The Stern Parent' by Harry Graham
Father heard his Children scream,
So he threw them in the stream,
Saying, as he drowned the third,
"Children should be seen, not heard!"
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This week, Susie and Gyles drift off far far away to the land of sleep...
So tune in and embark on a journey through the nocturnal landscape of words.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Nescience: An absence of knowledge; ignorance.
Phobophobia: The fear of being afraid.
Rasorial: Characteristically scratching the ground for food.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)' by William Shakespeare
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo! Thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee and for myself no quiet find.
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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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*Cough cough*... This week Susie and Gyles explore the language of diseases. From Cholera to Mumps, and Malaria to Influenza, they have you covered.
Also, we reveal the WINNERS of our 'To Dent' and 'To Brandreth' competition!
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Shackbaggerly: Disordered and unkempt.
Komorebi (Japanese): The patterns cast by sunlight filtering through trees.
Gruttling (old East Anglian dialect): A strange, inexplicable noise.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Sick Room' by Billy Collins
Every time Canaletto painted Venice
he painted her from a different angle,
sometimes from point of view
he must have imagined,
for there is no place in the city
he could have stood and observed such scenes.
How ingenious of him to visualise
a dome or canal from any point in space.
How passionate he was
to delineate Venice from perspectives
that required him to mount the air
and levitate there with his floating brush.
But I have been sick in this bed
for over sixty hours,
and I am not Canaletto,
and this airless little room,
with its broken ceiling fan
and it monstrous wallpaper, is not Venice.
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This week, Susie and Gyles unravel the intricate history of dictionaries, those indispensable guides that serve as gateways to language. From ancient lexicons to modern compendiums, we explore how dictionaries have shaped our understanding of words and the world around us. And Gyles lets us know how his weight lifting is going...
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Idioticon : A dialect dictionary.
Limbeck: To rack the brain and exhaust yourself in an effort to come up with a new idea.
Proggle: To poke, prod, or grubble about.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Shakespeare at School' by Wendy Cope
Forty boys on benches with their quills
Six days a week through almost all the year,
Long hours of Latin with relentless drills
And repetition, all enforced by fear.
I picture Shakespeare sitting near the back,
Indulging in a risky bit of fun
By exercising his prodigious knack
Of thinking up an idiotic pun,
And whispering his gem to other boys,
Some of whom could not suppress their mirth –
Behaviour that unfailingly annoys
Any teacher anywhere on earth.
The fun was over when the master spoke:
Will Shakespeare, come up here and share the joke.
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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,
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,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
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This week Susie and Gyles delve back into a favourite topic, shoes.
Inspired by purple person Kevin, the origins of all manner of footwear are discussed such as Oxford's, Brogue's and Gibson's.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Obloquy: public condemnation.
Myrmidon: Someone who unscrupulously follows someone more powerful.
Naiad: a nymph of lakes, springs and rivers.
Gyles' poem this week is called 'Life Is Like A Pair Of New Shoes' by Cameron Delaney
Life's like a pair of new shoes
Their sparkling brand-new white hues
The stiff soles and laces
Tied up tightly like braces
That eventually wear down as you use
Life's like a pair of new shoes
They go in directions you choose
Down city street blocks
Wherever you walk
They stride along as you cruise
Lifes like a pair of new sneaks
When you first try to wear 'em they squeak
You run down the court
Of an athletic sport
And you show off your skilled techniques
Life's like a pair of new boots
Some fashionable leather beauts
You strut through the city
And you look real pretty
In your white collar buisness suits
Life's like a pair of new shoes
That wear out from years of good use
But soon they get old
And the insides have mold
And by the trashcan we say our "adieus"
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This week it's about the birthday boy, as we celebrate all things Gyles Brandreth.
Not only does Gyles spoil us with a plethora of his famous anecdotes, but he becomes the linguistics quizmaster and places Susie in the hot seat to answer questions from his book 'Have You Eaten Grandma'.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GYLES! You are truly one of a kind.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Galere: A coterie of undesirable people.
Chawbacon: One uninterested in culture.
Boulevardier: A lover of boulevards.
Gyles' poem this week was the incredibly emotive 'Counting Backwards' by Linda Pastan.
How did I get so old,
I wonder,
contemplating
my 67th birthday.
Dyslexia smiles:
I’m 76 in fact.
There are places
where at 60 they start
counting backwards;
in Japan
they start again
from one.
But the numbers
hardly matter.
It’s the physics
of acceleration I mind,
the way time speeds up
as if it hasn’t guessed
the destination—
where look!
I see my mother
and father bearing a cake,
waiting for me
at the starting line.
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From the latin word dicere meaning ‘to speak, to tell or to say’. This week Susie and Gyles are looking at the ultimate word bible, the dictionary!
Gyles ponders the difference between a glossary and a dictionary.
And Susie delves into prescriptivism vs descriptivism
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And now for three bite sized words from Susie in her trio:
Thruffable: Open and transparent (through).
Wambliness: An upheaval of the stomach.
Boodyankers: An exclamation of surprise or delight (Northumberland).
Gyles’s poem comes from his friend and neighbour James K Harris and is called ‘I Don’t’
I don't, of course, mean everything I say.
I mean, sometimes, I don't know what I mean.
Sometimes I have a thought which goes astray.
I start describing blue, it turns out green.
The alphabet is very volatile. Its union is hard to bring to heel. It's easy to fall victim to its guile.
You think you're describing what you feel, but then you find the words describing you.
And so one sees oneself in their dark light. One thinks one is describing what is true, then suddenly one sees one isn't right.
In which case, still, it's true that one was wrong.
Well, truth, in some guys, always comes along.
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The 90s was a crazy decade, brimming with pop culture moments that defined Britain. Susie and Gyles discuss words that gained popularity in the post Cold War era, from Cool Britannia, to the Spice Girls, Dianamania to the World Wide Web...
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Solacious: Soothing or comforting.
Soodle : To linger or dawdle.
Splatherdab: A gossip.
Gyles' poem this week was 'This Boy' by Leigh Lawson, who wrote it upon the birth of his first grandson, Solomon.
He gives me joy, this boy,
Unspeakable, inexpressible.
This boy gives me joy.
Inexplicable, unexplainable.
This boy brings me joy.
Let bells ring, choirs sing,
Chimes chime, poets rhyme,
Trumpets trump, drums drum,
Feet stamp, guitars strum.
Higher than the moon,
Oh, hotter than the sun,
Deeper than the sea,
Is the joy this boy brings to me.
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🤦🏼♀️🤦🏻 oh, dear Lord, how can Giles defend that old fraud Boris Johnson?, seems Gyles will defend anybody who he regards as upper class, royal, or a conservative MP, we have a word for that: a Toady
Love it😍🫶
As a 55 year old man that's just found this beautifully curated podcast,which incidentally gave me my favourite word Petrichor the smell of rain. I'm thankful there is a huge back catalogue to listen to.So sad there will be no more 😢
feel like I've been served divorce papers, & don't know what I did wrong? I loved you sooo much 😲🤦♀️🤷🏻♀️😢💔🥹💔😪💔😭💔
🤦🏼♀️ errghh! 'we are changing' sounds very much like 'good news, we're upgrading the app'! 🧐🤔🤨
🍾💐🥂at last!, another delightful episode of 'Something Rhymes With Purple' 🙂✨️
👋 wonderful to find a quality podcast that's completely different, entertaining, informative, & so utterly enjoyable 💐💐💐 ... there's a thought, what is the origin of utterly?
I'm really enjoying this podcast. Discovered it through Susie Dent's interview with James O'Brien on Full Disclosure. This satisfies both my love of words and my curiosity of their origin. Presented by 2 experts who are a pleasure to listen to.
Gyles' poem has just summed up marriage for me
to even imagine that one small, very, very, very small, part of the entire globe believes it has the right to define others is beyond belief, petty, incomprehensible, & could only be created by an inward looking culture that in it's belief of it's superiority, like most religions, is both fatuous, false & at it's worst a definition of stupidity
I absolutely love Something Rhymes With Purple seriously you're my #1 podcast I can even bear/enjoy Giles' interruptions. ... what are the extrapolations of bear/bare ???? & then bored ?
I can't begin to tell you how much Something Rhymes With Purple means to me 🫂 really, in lockdown Australia you kept me sane & hopeful & as a person who lives with adult anxiety you make my world a better place ✨️✨️✨️
🤦♀️ oh Gyles!! imagine that poem written for a young man?! urg! women, young or old are NOT POSSESSIONS 😡🤬🤬
I would say to Ben Stiller & every other multimillionaire, you can actually in one ONE transaction, achieve more than asking thousands of us to donate, what your NOT revealing is that your 'foundations' are tax breaks that achieve NOTHING except save you money
There are a lot of jumping spiders. They can jump 50 their body length.
I absolutely love this podcast. it's the one I have to take the time to listen to and digest. I don't like just having it on in the background because I enjoy listening to Susie and Gyles and learning new words. This is the pod I recommend to everyone.
Could we be spared 'busy people are happy people ' repeated over & over?, 🤦♀️
I NEVER want to hear the word macrame ever again
this episode is full of errors - repeated, jumbled up, jumps back and forth
The poem is quite easy to get the meaning of here, I'm not surprised Gyles doesn't understand it though. He is the victorian ghost that should go back into the cupboard, and we all love Suzie.