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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Join us this week as we look back over our first fifty episodes of Something Rhymes With Purple. This wouldn’t have been possible without you so thank you for listening and for keeping us on our toes with your questions and suggestions… please keep them coming! If you haven’t listened to all fifty episodes then now is the time to catch up and here are some clips to entice you and point you in the right direction. In this episode Susie and Gyles reveal which came first: orange the colour or orange the fruit; they uncover the initial trailblazers; they disclose the rather nasty origins of ‘hangdog expression’; and they raise a glass to the original tosspots… who weren’t as rude as you may think. Plus, Gyles has some handy 20-second poems for you to learn to aid hand washing and a quotation to inspire you throughout the week. If you have a question for Susie and Gyles then please get in touch: [email protected] A Somethin’ Else production. Gyles' poems: Verse 1 of "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear: 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!" "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to something rhymes with purple. I'm jazz brand-ruth and with my friend
0:08.6	Susie Dent we bring you a weekly brand-up of wordy stuff. We just love words and language.
0:15.1	We are verbivores. Usually we're coming to you from Susie's sitting room in Oxford.
0:20.3	Today I'm in the attic at my home in London. Susie, well I tried to get her on the line,
0:27.3	but I didn't manage to, but don't worry, you're going to hear plenty of her in the next half-hour or so,
0:32.3	and we're going to be together again, at least virtually next week.
0:37.3	Because like many of you, the something rhymes with purple team are working from home for a while,
0:42.3	so the podcasts may sound a little bit different, but fear not, we will continue recording to share with you
0:48.3	our love of words and language.
0:51.3	Last week was our 50th episode, so we thought it a perfect time to look back on some highlights from what we've done so far.
0:59.3	And if you haven't listened to all 50 episodes yet, now is the ideal time to do so,
1:06.3	and hopefully this will wet your appetite to go back and catch up.
1:11.3	We want to continue to answer as many of your questions as possible,
1:14.3	so please do contact us at the usual address, purple at something else.com.
1:20.3	That's something without the G, purple at something else.com.
1:26.3	First, a language warning, because some people of course aren't at school anymore,
1:31.3	a language warning, you'll know that every now and again we effing Jeff,
1:36.3	purely for the professional reason of studying the words etymology, of course.
1:41.3	But if you are listening with your children, please note that there are some swears in this one.
1:48.3	Fuck me, it happens now again.
1:50.3	But there is poetry too.
1:52.3	Yes, a couple of verses that last precisely 20 seconds,
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