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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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Garbelage
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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Rubbish
You thought the trash talking had come to a close! Well buckle up purple people.
Also, we hear another 2 fabulous listener emails.
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Sabana
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.
We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us on our email address here: purplepeople@somethingrhymes.com
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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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The Purple People Club
We've had a makeover! Introducing you to... THE PURPLE PEOPLE CLUB! This is a super special subscription-only HQ all about you. Susie and Gyles play a new game, 'Root Pursuit', and we answer 2 more email correspondence.
Get your comfies on and prepare to have so much fun.
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Saudade
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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Memory Lane
This week we take a walk down memory lane... Susie and Gyles reminisce over their favourite decades and all the things they loved about the past.
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