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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Happy New Year, Purple People! We're kicking off 2024 by flicking through the pages of Gyles book' 'Word Play'. Join us and join in as we unpack and explore odd and unusual words in the English language. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us on our NEW email address 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: Gorgonize: To have a mesmerising effect on someone Lethophobia: The fear of oblivion. Grubbling: Fumbling about in your bag or pocket in order to find something. Gyles' poem this week was 'Tarantella' by Hilaire Belloc Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn? And the tedding and the spreading Of the straw for a bedding, And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees, And the wine that tasted of tar? And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers (Under the vine of the dark verandah)? Do you remember an Inn, Miranda, Do you remember an Inn? And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteeers Who hadn't got a penny, And who weren't paying any, And the hammer at the doors and the Din? And the Hip! Hop! Hap! Of the clap Of the hands to the twirl and the swirl Of the girl gone chancing, Glancing, Dancing, Backing and advancing, Snapping of a clapper to the spin Out and in -- And the Ting, Tong, Tang, of the Guitar. Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn? Never more; Miranda, Never more. Only the high peaks hoar: And Aragon a torrent at the door. No sound In the walls of the Halls where falls The tread Of the feet of the dead to the ground No sound: But the boom Of the far Waterfall like Doom. A 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	Hello, Giles here, and knowing that we have a family audience and the purple people often include
0:06.1	some very young people, just to say that today's episode does include some language that some people may find uncomfortable or offensive.
0:15.0	Before we begin, before we even say,
0:21.0	welcome to another episode of something Rimes with the Purple,
0:24.0	Susie Dent and I want to say something to all of you who are kind enough to be listening
0:29.0	at the beginning of 2024.
0:32.0	Happy New Year to all of you. We appreciate the purple people so much. We really do.
0:38.0	Okay, welcome to another episode of Something Rhymes with Purple. If you're new to our podcast a very warm
0:45.6	welcome to you. This is a place where I'm pleased to say tens of thousands of
0:49.9	people from around the world gather once a week to listen to me and my good friend
0:55.4	Susie Dent who I was described as the world's leading lexicographer. She then
1:00.3	demurs but I persist in seeing her as that, and until any competition comes across the horizon,
1:05.7	she is. Is there a society of lexicographer, Susie?
1:08.8	That's a very good question. If there is, I haven't been invited to be passed of it, but there are wonderful societies for proofreaders and editors, which I am a part of and yeah, so they're sort of ancillary.
1:22.8	Well I wouldn't say the ancillary,
1:24.4	they're very important professions in themselves,
1:26.2	but in terms of lexicographers,
1:27.9	do you know, I am not sure.
1:29.3	There's the Royal Philological Society, of course, but maybe I should set one up.
1:35.0	Is there a collective noun for a group of lexicographers?
1:39.0	A lot of people will say a pedant, won't they?
1:41.0	No.
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