Lethologica

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Aghast that Gyles still thinks ‘YOLO’ is a new word, Susie talks us through the process of creating new words and, more importantly, how to get them into the dictionary. Via oldies like ‘groupies’, ‘burtons’ and ‘velcro’ Susie discusses which words stick and passes judgment on whether new words like ‘Covidiot’ are here for the long haul. She reminds us that you can’t campaign for a word to be added to the dictionary (as the Potato Council found to their disappointment)… but that won’t stop Gyles and his passion for the word ’snart’. We also go through your fascinating and mysterious nicknames for woodlice, Susie has her trio of wonderful words, and Gyles sends us off into the day with a lovely bit of Larkin. A Somethin’ Else production. Susie’s trio: Forplaint - exhausted from weeping Interdespise - to hate someone as much as they hate you Lectory - a place to read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard this Air France podcast message. Air France and its crew invite you to discover
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0:29.4	or UK. And now we go live to Tirrell's Farts. Down here in head of the chair the folks are
0:35.4	busy bringing in a bumper crop of local spuds. And of course when you have the finest potatoes
0:41.6	only the tastiest ingredients will do. That's where the tasting team come in.
0:45.7	All this ensures their crisps taste de-radi-licious. In fact the Tirrell's team have done such a spiffing job.
0:55.7	People across the land are calling their crisps terribly, terribly tasty.
0:59.7	Hello and welcome to another episode of Something Rimes with Purple. This is a podcast presented by
1:15.7	me, Jars Brandrath and my friend. Excuse me, Dad. We're a bit slow, Dad. Excuse me, Dad.
1:20.7	It wasn't a bad idea behind me but that's because she's down the line. She's in Oxford, close to the Oxford English
1:27.7	dictionary where she used to work and which is now her constant study. She of course is famous for being the
1:34.7	person in dictionary corner on the word game countdown, words and numbers game countdown on Channel 4. I'm Jars Brandrath and I'm here because I'm
1:43.7	at Marum and one of her groupies. I agree. What's the origin of the word groupie? That's what we do on this show. We meet every
1:51.7	week and we talk about words and language. We explore the part of language and where language comes from, where it's
1:58.7	going to. Groupies, I say one of your groupies, what's the origin of that expression? What does it mean? It means that you want to
2:03.7	belong to that group to the in-crowd and it first started with military slang as so often. So it started in the R.A.F.
2:13.7	and a groupie then was a kind of group captain. So that kind of makes sense but then quite soon after about a
2:20.7	decade after it meant a person associated with a core group of famous people. So they're kind of on the
2:25.7	periphery and want to be on the inside. And then in the 60s of course that's when you know that's when the groupie
2:32.7	really took took over and. Because they pursued pop groups. Yeah, if you were a Beatles fan. Yes. You were
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