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Hello and welcome to another episode of Something Rimes with Purple.

I'm Giles Brandruth, speaking to you from London, England,

and speaking to you from Oxford, England is my colleague, friend,

and the world's leading lexicographer.

In my book, anyway, that's what she is. It's Susie Dent, how are you Susie?

Last in your book, thank you, Giles. Very well, thank you very much.

You sound a bit sniffly. I am covered in cold.

I've got a sore throat, I've got a thick head, but there we are.

This is life, and curiously, because I've spent the whole, you know,

the past year on more, thinking about this pandemic.

I'd forgotten to be ill in other ways.

Yes. So now I've suddenly got a cold, and of course I feel I shouldn't be out there,

but at least I can put on a mask and keep my sneezes to myself.

That's the thing that I hope we maintain with mask wearing when,

and let's hope it will be a when. This is all over,

that we will become more like Japan, and we will actually wear masks,

because there's a benevolent thing towards other people not to infect them

rather than not to be infected, you know, if we have colds, etc.

And I am not keen to go back to the handshake.

I am now got into the habit of the Namaste,

is that how it's pronounced? Yeah.

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