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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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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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    Pizzicato

    Pizzicato

    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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    • 30 min
    Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Emile Zola

    Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Emile Zola

    Wow, what a journey purple people! We have reached the end of our Wit and Wisdom A-Z!

    'I am here to live out loud'.

    Emile Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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    Murdre

    Murdre

    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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    • 40 min
    Wit and Wisdom A-Z: WB Yeats

    Wit and Wisdom A-Z: WB Yeats

    'The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.'

    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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    Hupnos

    Hupnos

    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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    • 37 min
    Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Malcolm X

    Wit and Wisdom A-Z: Malcolm X

    'You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.'

    Malcolm X: A leader in the civil rights movement, a Minister, and a supporter of Black nationalism.

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