Monopoly

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today’s show was recorded live at the Fortune Theatre in London. Gyles’ title of European Monopoly Champion comes into play (literally) today as he - alongside Susie Dent - take us on an etymological tour of the world of Property. Come discover what the Bungalow has to do with Bengal, the connection between villas and villains, why Peppercorns were so important for renting before we ascend the hill of Palatine for a palatial revelation. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us here: [email protected] 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: Fimble-famble: a very lame excuse. Nixie: A letter so badly addressed it can’t be delivered. Disco rice: dustmen-speak for maggots. Gyles' poem this week was 'Growing Old' by 'John Sparrow ' I’m accustomed to my deafness To my dentures I’m resigned I can cope with my bifocals But –o dear!– I miss my mind. 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something else.
0:09.0	Hello.
0:12.0	Good afternoon.
0:14.0	I'm so excited to be here.
0:17.0	Thank you so much for coming.
0:20.0	Welcome to Something Rimes With Purple.
0:23.0	A very warm welcome to another episode of our podcast, which is all about words and language,
0:33.0	and is presented by me, Jiles Brannert, and my very good friend, Susie Dent. How are you Susie?
0:38.0	Hello, I'm very well, and I'm particularly happy to be sitting in our, what are quite worn in now,
0:43.0	these armchairs in the fortune-fierce in London. We're back for another live show.
0:47.0	This is a live show where on a purple set, purple car, purple chairs,
0:52.0	and purple people in the audience, not all of them purple people.
0:55.0	Those of you who aren't purple people, we call purple people the people who listen regularly to the podcast.
0:59.0	So if you're new to the podcast, and we've now done 200 of these podcasts,
1:04.0	if you're new to the show, essentially what happens is we take a particular subject, explore it,
1:10.0	and then we invite the audience at home, our purple people to either email us,
1:15.0	or in this case that we are alive, to have a conversation with us about words they want to talk about.
1:19.0	My favourite bit. Yes, we'll come to that.
1:21.0	And then later we play a game, a slightly different version of Susie's trio,
1:25.0	and I'm thinking of trying to, I want to do an amusing poem today, I've decided,
1:30.0	because I usually end up with a little poem from me.
1:32.0	Speaking of games, you and I both board games, and our subject, our theme today, is property,
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