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Welcome to something rhymes with purple. My name is Jars Brandroth and I'm speaking to you from London, England.

With my co-host and friend Susie Dent who is in Oxford, England. How are you today Susie?

I'm fine. Thank you very much Jars. It is very drink outside. I have to say there's no other word for it.

Drink is a Scottish word? Yes. Yeah, a Scottish word meaning sort of wet, gloomy and overcast and all together a bit blur. It's a bit bleak.

Well, I'm going to be taking you to the Sunshine State in a moment. We're going over to America. We're going in search of Sunshine.

And in search of words, language that we find interesting, amusing, arresting, controversial and the origins of some of those words.

If you're new to our podcast, a warm welcome. We call it something rhymes with purple because when we started it almost 200 episodes ago, I thought nothing rhymed with purple.

I thought purple was a word like silver or orange for which there was no rhyme. But in fact there are several words Susie told me that rhyme with purple, one of which the first one who came up with was purple, I think.

Purple to walk with a limp, purple, which is part of a horse's rump and something does rhyme with silver. Jars, if you remember, Milva, which is somebody who shares a strong interest in a particular topic, especially words and word play.

So we should have called it something rhymes with silver, really because it would have been more appropriate.

Well, and you mentioning word play, we must come up with an episode soon where we play some word games because I love word games and word puzzles. And I know you very sweetly have been taking part in my new daily anagram game.

Full rainbow people can go online just full rainbow dot code dot UK. And it's a daily seven letter anagram. Some people do it instantly.

And other people like our brilliant producer Harriet just find that unless the letters are written in a circle, she can't unravel the anagram quickly and is often stumped and ends up with a rainbow instead of a rainbow.

It is quite tricky. Have you always been good at anagrams?

No, not at all. I think it's definitely a muscle in the brain that you need to exercise regularly. And I still have days on countdown where, you know, that particular muscle is barely tensing. I just can't I can't get very much tall.

Like, we don't happen very often, but I definitely am very, very fanable. I love the way you can take the word anagrams rearrange the letters into the Latin phrase as magna.

Anyway, that's for another day. We're not playing games today. We're going to America and we've been on a bit of a trip. This is the fourth leg of our journey across America. Why do we call it a leg? By the way, why is it? I suppose because you're legging it, you're moving on. Is that why it's called a leg?

No, not really. It's actually developed from a nautical use of the terms. In the early 17th century, a leg was a short rope and crucially it branched out into two parts. It could be more parts, but it's usually two. So they look like two limbs.

So it was part of the rigging on board a ship. And then, of course, because you used the ship for transport, it was transferred over to cars.

That is quite extraordinary. We're on the fourth leg of this journey across the United States of America. And today we're going to be visiting Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco with due humility because we know there are purple people, as we call our regular listeners living in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, who will know much more about it than we do.

If you are one of those and want to contribute, please do get in touch with us. It's purple at something else.com. And that's something without a G. Shall we begin in Las Vegas? Have you been to Las Vegas?

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