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Something Rhymes with Purple

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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Education, Comedy, Arts

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Wooooooo, it’s our Halloween Special! Susie and Gyles go on the hunt for the spooky meanings lurking beneath our language. Featuring fairies, oafs, seeing gremlins, the origin of wicked, evil spirits eating the flesh of corpses, grave robbers, the origin of abracadabra, phalluses diverting the attention of the evil eye and haunted lemurs. A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:19.0

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0:22.4

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0:26.4

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0:27.7

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0:30.5

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0:41.2

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Something Rhymes with Purple.

0:46.8

This is a podcast all about words and language,

0:49.9

and it features me, Charles Brandrath,

0:52.0

and my friend and colleague, Suzy Dent.

0:55.6

Hello.

0:56.4

This is the week of Halloween.

0:59.4

I'm going to say what does Halloween mean to you, Suzy?

1:01.6

But what does Halloween mean?

1:03.9

Well, it's a shortening really of Hallows' Eam,

1:07.5

which itself is Hallows' evening.

1:09.4

Hallow, an old English word for holy.

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