Namby-Pamby

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Education, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What-ho Purple People! This week we’re ‘up to the eyebrows’ and having a good old ‘chortle’ at some of the words introduced to the English language by authors. Prepare to be ‘bedazzled’ by this ‘unputdownable’ episode where we’ll be looking into the inventions of PG Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll, Joseph Heller and many more, as well as hopefully avoiding falling into a ‘honeytrap’ or getting stuck in a ‘Catch-22’. Oh and we’ll reveal the origin of the word ‘podcast’ too. As always we’ll be answering the always fantastic emails you’ve been sending into us, Susie will expand our vocabulary with her weekly trio of words, and Gyles will leave us feeling inspired with his quotation of the week. Pip Pip! Susie’s trio: Shoulder-clapper: someone who is unnecessarily friendly and overfamiliar Ratiocinator: someone who reasons logically Dutch Feast: a party at which the host gets drunk before the guests A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to something rhymes with purple with me.
0:07.0	Susie Dent and my co-host, Charles Brandrath, who currently can't talk because he's eating a bagel.
0:14.0	I bought a few this very morning because I know that you're favourite.
0:17.0	It's a freshly baked bagel. I can't talk now.
0:19.0	I've swore on my bagel from another bite to here.
0:22.0	I'm going to bite into it.
0:23.0	While I bite into it, tell me about the bagel. Where does it come from?
0:25.0	It's a Yiddish word, a bagel.
0:28.0	My first actually first encountered bagels in Germany.
0:31.0	They're just fresh bagels. And on the streets of Manhattan, getting a fresh bagel from one of those.
0:35.0	Oh, you're right, I haven't actually been to as many places as I would like to.
0:40.0	I'm swallowing it now. Thanks for the copper.
0:43.0	Oh, you're very welcome.
0:44.0	I've been given a cup of tea.
0:45.0	We have.
0:46.0	Now, can you imagine actually being British and getting through a morning without a copper?
0:51.0	Well, you'd have to, if it weren't for,
0:54.0	Sir Pelham, Grenville, Woodhouse, who first used the word copper.
0:59.0	It is 1925 novel Sam The Subben.
1:03.0	That's what I say. Am I right?
1:04.0	I think it probably is.
1:05.0	I love Pigey Woodhouse because of Gruntles.
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