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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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Botulus
*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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Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Kurt Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut: Satirical writer, American soldier, and prisoner of war.
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Fascicles
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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Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Peter Ustinov
Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour...
Peter Ustinov: English actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, raconteur, and humanitarian.
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Bafflegab
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
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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!"
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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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Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Elizabeth Taylor
She may share her name with a very famous actress, but she is an iconic in her own unique way...
Elizabeth Taylor: An English novelist and short-story writer.
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Customer Reviews
General comment
Totally addictive program for anyone who loves any kind of play on words.
Gyles the over confident but brilliant wordsmith and Suzie the bashful and modest scholar on the origins of words
Great chemistry going on too.
Just started listening to many episodes from the beginning, 5 years ago.
Robert Wade~Smith in Menorca
Giles doesn’t like the woke
When you do a podcast, what you do in other spheres influences people’s views of you. Giles being up in arms about the “wokery” of using the word chest feeding on This Morning means I will not be listening again. What a load of rubbish.
Jarring moments
Although often wonderful, this show occasionally reveals insights into the beliefs of the podcasters which are so rigid, that it genuinely makes them very unpleasant to listen to.