Chandelier

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Susie and Gyles are guiding us out of etymological darkness as they the light way to better understanding the world of light! We’ll have many light bulb moments as we discover how extortion and contortion are twisted into the intriguing language of torches, what’s hiding in the sconce and why candles are candid. Gyles shares his schoolboy days as a lighting technician of sorts whilst Susie continues to pull the plug on linguistic myths when answering this week’s Purple Peoples’ post. Susie and Gyles are guiding us out of etymological darkness as they the light way to better understanding the world of light! We’ll have many light bulb moments as we discover how extortion and contortion are twisted into the intriguing language of torches, what’s hiding in the sconce and why candles are candid. Gyles shares his schoolboy days as a lighting technician of sorts whilst Susie continues to pull the plug on linguistic myths when answering this week’s Purple Peoples’ post. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us here: [email protected] We currently have 20% off at the SRwP official merchandise store, just head to: https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple Want even more purple, people? Join the Purple Plus Club by clicking the banner in Apple podcasts or head to purpleplusclub.com to listen on other platforms' Don’t forget that you can join us in person at our upcoming tour, tap the link to find tickets: www.somethingrhymeswithpurple.com Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: Peccable: Prone to sin. This is a rare example of a lost negative. Leucocholy: A white Melancholy, a good easy sort of a state. Uitwaaien (Dutch oot-vay-en): To clear the mind in windy weather. Gyles reads The Midnight Skaters by Roger McGough It is midnight in the ice rink And all is cool and still. Darkness seems to hold its breath Nothing moves, until Out of the kitchen, one by one, The cutlery comes creeping, Quiet as mice to the brink of the ice While all the world is sleeping. Then suddenly, a serving-spoon Switches on the light, And the silver swoops upon the ice Screaming with delight. The knives are high-speed skaters Round and round they race, Blades hissing, sissing, Whizzing at a dizzy pace. Forks twirl like dancers Pirouetting on the spot. Teaspoons (who take no chances) Hold hands and giggle a lot. All night long the fun goes on Until the sun, their friend, Gives the warning signal That all good things must end. So they slink back to the darkness of the kitchen cutlery-drawer And steel themselves to wait Until it's time to skate once more. At eight the canteen ladies Breeze in as good as gold To lay the tables and wonder Why the cutlery is so cold. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] 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 and as the purple people know very well
0:14.5	by now this is a cast about words and language, it's about your questions, they've always
0:19.5	vexed you over the years that you can then put to me and to Charles Brown dresser who is
0:25.3	sitting opposite me on screen at least. Hello, Charles, how are you doing?
0:29.6	I'm doing very well indeed. I'm conflicted because now we're well into January, most people
0:35.2	I know have taken down their Christmas lights, but I'm keeping mine up. I'm keeping mine
0:39.9	up until the 2nd of February. Yes, I've been quoting you about this because I had the
0:45.4	dilemma. It's always after New York, New Year falls, I then sort of think, is it time?
0:52.0	Is it time? I know that's not the official time, but every single year you tell me that
0:55.8	you're Michelle, keep your tree up for weeks and I kind of wonder how you stand it because
1:00.9	I know equally I'm quite envious that you let yourselves do that. So explain, what's
1:04.3	the rationale? Well, the rationale is this, most people think of the 12 days of Christmas
1:08.6	coming to an end on 12th night, which is officially a piphany. It's in the Christian feast
1:16.8	day. It marks the arrival of the wise men, the mageye, the manger in the Bible story.
1:24.4	And that's when Christmas comes to an end and that's when traditionally people take
1:27.9	down their Christmas decorations in the British Isles. There are parts of the world where
1:32.3	Christmas isn't celebrated until the 6th of January, a piphany. But that's the normally
1:38.0	people think that's when decorations come down by midnight on the 6th of January. But
1:43.5	there is a school of thinking that the Christmas season, the festival goes on until candle
1:49.0	mass, which is the 2nd of February. And because I love the idea of Christmas lights and I
1:56.5	like to see the Christmas tree getting bolder and bolder as the weeks go by, we just keep
2:02.0	ours up until the 2nd of February. But you can do whatever you've had.
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