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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hands and feet at the ready Purple People, today we are looking at the world of measurements. We’ll find out how Oxens’ shaped our measurement system, why you would have a different weight village to village and how a stick was the object to rule(r) them all. Make sure you aren’t one over the eight for this episode as Susie will be testing your knowledge of some of the stranger units of measure before we jump into the mailbag for some Purple Post featuring the voices of two lovely Purple People. Susie’s trio and Gyles’ poem conclude another Purple plunge for this week. A Somethin’ Else production. We love answering your wordy questions on the show so please do keep sending them in to [email protected] To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple If you would like to join the Purple Plus Club on Apple Subs please follow this link https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/something-rhymes-with-purple/id1456772823 and make sure that you are running the most up-to-date IOS on your computer/device otherwise it won’t work. Susie's Trio: Twindle: old dialect for a twin sibling Miscounsel: bad advice Champagne shoulders (19th century): the sloping kind, because of their resemblance to a champagne bottle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit
0:15.0	because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top
0:20.0	and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.
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1:09.0	Hello and welcome to something rhymes with purple. The podcast about words, language and just general
1:17.0	witcherings I would say, Giles, of a lovely nature because this is my favourite hour of the week when I get to look at you
1:23.0	on my screen and hear your tails and share a few of my own. Share a few of the secret lives as I call them
1:30.0	of all the words that we pass by in our language without ever giving them a second thought. How are you?
1:35.0	Well I'm very well. I'm drowning under post. Normally I'm drowning under emails.
1:40.0	But today it's post. I'm involved in a whole range of different societies, fun societies.
1:45.0	One of them is the Oscar Wilde Society of which I'm president and are one of our journals, intentions
1:51.0	arrived today full of interesting stuff we've want live on the wild side. But another publication arrived that is very relevant
1:57.0	to what I think we're going to talk about today. I get a publication on a, I monthly or maybe quarterly basis called Yardstick.
2:05.0	And Yardstick is a publication for people who haven't quite gone along with metrication.
2:11.0	And I don't quite know why. I appear to be one of the supporters of this. I've got no objection to
2:17.0	metrication and the changes that came along but I'm a little bit old school. So I'm a long list of people who
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