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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Join Susie and Gyles this week as they unravel the delightful chaos of misnomers, where words dance to their own tunes! Discover the quirky origins behind some linguistic rebels and the stories they've mistaken for truth. 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: Betise: An action of foolishness or stupidity Catillate: To lock dishes Sarcast: A sarcastic person Gyles' poem this week was 'From a Railway Carriage' by Robert Louis Stevenson Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle: All of the sights of the hill and the plain Fly as thick as driving rain; And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Painted stations whistle by. Here is a child who clambers and scrambles, All by himself and gathering brambles; Here is a tramp who stands and gazes; And there is the green for stringing the daisies! Here is a cart run away in the road Lumping along with man and load; And here is a mill and there is a river: Each a glimpse and gone for ever! 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 and welcome to something rhymes with purple and if you didn't already this is a podcast
0:07.4	about words and language and just some worldly musings as well from me, Susie Dent and from
0:13.9	my co pod, well I'm just calling in my podpanion for now, Charles Brando's who is sitting opposite
0:19.8	me but on zoom on my screen live from Edinburgh, well I hope you live, how are you doing, Charles?
0:26.5	I'm doing well, I've had a fabulous month in Edinburgh, I'm coming back to London and then I'm
0:31.3	going to have an exciting autumn, I'm doing lots of new and amusing things and I'm going to Venice,
0:35.8	which is lovely, one of my favorite cities in the world. So we might talk about Italian English,
0:41.8	we often talk about influences from France and from Germany, even from India, but have we ever
0:48.2	talked about the influence of the Italian language on English? So as we must, we must have
0:52.8	an episode on pastors, we am sure we did, on the different types of pastors, why they're so called.
0:57.5	We did do one on pastor but there's a lot more to Italy than pastor. Good. I actually very recently
1:03.4	did a, there's a lovely program on Radio 4 called Great Lives where the guest chooses someone who's
1:11.9	had a big influence on their life and at life and I chose the also Thomas Mann whose works featured
1:18.6	in my studies of German and he of course wrote death in Venice, so Venice has been on my mind as well.
1:24.4	I must talk to you sometime then, Susie Dent, about the confessions of Felix Crowe,
1:30.4	which is a novel by Thomas Mann, that influenced me hugely when I was a teenager,
1:35.4	when I got to the end though, I was gripped by it, I discovered it was only volume one,
1:39.3	and then I learnt he never got around to writing volume two, so you can explain all that to me.
1:44.4	Yeah, we must talk to Thomas Mann, have a hefty discussion, I'd enjoy that, but you know what,
1:48.8	today's subject is very different and you know how I love the way that English evolves through
1:54.4	mistakes and I talk about this a lot because people tend to worry about the health of English and
2:00.4	they think that it's in decline because people are getting things wrong, whether it's grammar,
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