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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Bona to vada your dolly eek, Purple People! Now, if the above greeting to today’s episode is wholly incomprehensible then let Gyles and Susie decode it for you as they take us through the fascinating language of Polari. Whether you want to add a bit of Zhuzh to your conversation or if you have experienced something a bit naff recently, Susie is here to tell us to how these words found their way into this secret language which heralded from Italian, but evolved to encompass multiple other languages, as well as using a host of linguistic tricks to create this uniting language of the traveller communities. Gyles will track how this language made its way into popular culture (accompanied with a number of name drops, of course!) and why in modern days, Polari found one of its homes in the LGBTQ+ community. Lau your luppers on the strillers bona and afterwards, on your computer keyboard and let Susie and Gyles know about any Polari questions you may have or if you have some Polari words you would like to share with them by emailing [email protected]. A Somethin’ Else production To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple Susie’s Trio: Sardonian - someone who flatters with deadly intent Jettatore - someone who brings misfortune with them Redeless - without council, or not knowing what to do particularly in an emergency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.5	Hello, Giles here, and knowing that we have a family audience and the purple people often include
1:15.9	some very young people just to say that today's episode does include some language that some people
1:22.3	may find uncomfortable or offensive. Bonito Varda, your dolly eek, and welcome to
1:30.9	Something Rhymes with Purple, the podcast all about words and language. With me, Giles Brandrath,
1:36.4	and my friend, colleague, and the world's leading lexicographer, Susie Dent. And today, at the
1:42.7	request of some of our wonderful purple people, we're going to dive headfirst into the fascinating
1:47.9	world of Polari. Polari is a language, and thanks to Nick Craig and Joe Siegel for suggesting this,
1:56.4	and also to our regular Kathmandu correspondent Andrew Steele, who's request to Nelly Arda to a
2:02.9	Sparry Camp Polari, was written entirely in the coded language of Polari, and it made us smile.
2:11.3	Now, we're going to explore what Polari is in detail in a moment, but Susie, it is of course
2:19.2	a language, a secret language. Is there a history of such languages? Tell us all about the world of
2:26.4	Polari. It is absolutely fascinating. As you know, I've written quite a bit about sort of
2:31.6	tribal languages and to group languages of various professions or people who united by a particular
2:38.0	passion, et cetera. And this one really stands on its own as something that became so kind of
2:43.7	extensive and also quite sophisticated and was also born out of a very real need. And there's a
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