Skiving

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re heading back to school to discuss beaks, divs, rostrums, and to get to the bottom of why UK public schools don’t seem very open to the public. We discuss the benefits of an encyclopaedia education, why school is actually a leisure activity, and we debate whether it’s skiving, bunking, or playing hooky. Away from the classroom there’s lots of reminiscing about favourite school-related books and tv shows, and some rather grand claims to fame from both Enid Blyton and Jacqueline Wilson. As always, Susie sets her three-word homework for us and Gyles reveals some bizarre morning rituals from his own schooldays. A Somethin’ Else production Susie’s trio Poppinoddles - a Cumbrian term for a roly poly Nix - an instruction to stop talking because someone is coming Duck’s dive - another phrase for skimming stones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Crypto doesn't sleep, so neither do we.
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0:18.8	Crypto trading involves risk of loss.
0:30.9	Hello, and welcome to something rhymes with purple.
0:34.7	The podcast all about words and language and just general meandering through English, really,
0:40.9	with me, Susie Dent, and the person at the top of my screen in a tiny different Zoom square,
0:46.3	jazz brandrath. Hello.
0:47.8	I'm excited to be here, I really am. It's lovely to be with you, because what we do here is we talk
0:53.3	all about words, and I discovered a new word today, Salma Gundi.
0:58.1	Are you familiar with this word Salma Gundi?
1:00.0	Yes, but I can't remember what it means.
1:02.4	It's like, it means like it's in the dish.
1:05.0	It's an Indian dish.
1:06.2	Lots of meats and fruit and vegetables, so somebody said to me,
1:10.3	oh, your Oxford book of Theatrical Anichtutes, it's a Salma Gundi of great stores,
1:16.4	and I thought, is that a compliment or not?
1:18.3	It's a new smog as board.
1:19.6	The new smog as board with a touch of diversity.
1:22.4	So I like it, and I'm going to be putting it into my language.
1:25.4	Salma Gundi.
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