300 episodes

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.

We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us here: purple@somethinelse.com

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Something Rhymes with Purple Something Rhymes

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    • 4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

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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.

We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us here: purple@somethinelse.com

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    Archaic Occupations

    Archaic Occupations

    We're travelling back in time this week purple People. Let's take a trip down memory lane and rediscover weird and wonderful archaic occupations!

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    Pang Wangle

    Pang Wangle

    Step into the time machine of linguistics and embark on a journey through the graveyard of forgotten words. In this week's episode of our Something Rhymes With Purple, Susie and Gyles unearth the most uproarious relics from the linguistic abyss. From "snollygoster" to “pang wangle,” prepare to find yourself in a linguistic oblivion.



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    Enjoy Susie’s (trendy) Trio for the week: 



    Cheugy:The opposite of trendy.

    Yeet: To forcefully throw something, or, an expression of excitement.

    Sliving: Living your best life.



    Gyles' poem this week was ‘When ‘You Are Old’ by W.B. Yeats



    When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

    And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

    And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

    Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;



    How many loved your moments of glad grace,

    And loved your beauty with love false or true,

    But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

    And loved the sorrows of your changing face;



    And bending down beside the glowing bars,

    Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

    And paced upon the mountains overhead

    And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.





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    • 40 min
    Folklore

    Folklore

    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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    • 42 min
    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    The course of true love never did run smooth, Purple People!

    Susie and Gyles' discuss William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in this weeks bonus episode.

    So follow us into the enchanted forest, to delight in this beautiful comedy play.

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    Juggins

    Juggins

    In this week’s episode, Susie and Gyles dish out a generous serving of all things to do with crockery!



    So gather round the table and feast upon a large helping of etymology, poems, obscure words and origins.



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    Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 



    Gound: Mucus produced by the eyes during sleep



    Vilipend: To hold or treat as of little worth or account



    Shotclog: One who is tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them



    Gyles' poem this week was ‘An Argument’ by Thomas Moore



    I've oft been told by learned friars,

    That wishing and the crime are one,

    And Heaven punishes desires

    As much as if the deed were done.



    If wishing damns us, you and I

    Are damned to all our heart's content;

    Come, then, at least we may enjoy

    Some pleasure for our punishment!





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    • 34 min
    Gone to pot!

    Gone to pot!

    Purple people, you are in for a treat! Susie & Gyles are carrying on the mug-nificent crockery chat.

    Let your cups runneth over with extra etymological knowledge!

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Customer Reviews

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2.2K Ratings

2.2K Ratings

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