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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Education, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re taking a little downtime and exploring the language behind some well-known hobbies and pastimes. Do you know your ‘aggie' from your ‘slag'? Your ‘taw' from your ‘duck'? Don’t worry, we haven’t lost our marbles but rather we’ll be playing with them. Plus we’ll be getting our binoculars out, having a little twitch, and attempting to finally 'grill' that ‘blocker'. And, if that wasn’t exhausting enough, we’re hitting the green to find out the meanings of ‘flub', ‘whiff', and ‘shank' on the golf course, hopefully avoiding an 'Arthur Scargill' and a 'fried egg' along the way… It’s tiring work taking it easy! As always Susie will be wowing us with her useful trio of words for the week, and we discover Gyles’ impressive history in the world of board games… and why his family might be responsible for the wild parakeets in West London… Susie’s trio: Shivviness - the feeling of discomfort when wearing new underwear Scuddling - to run with affected haste Razzle - to cook something until the outside of it burns, while the inside remains raw A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	...something else.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Charles Brandruth, and I'm here to welcome you to another episode of Something Rhymes with Purple.
0:16.0	A podcast where we celebrate the joys, the challenges, the adventure that is the English language.
0:23.0	And we meet up every week. I say, we, it's me and my friend.
0:27.0	Suzy Dent.
0:29.0	Suzy Dent, and we've come again, Suzy, to your home in Oxford, right here in your sitting room.
0:34.0	I'm very pleased. I've had a good week. Have you had a good week?
0:39.0	Yeah, I've had an okay week. I've been writing my book furiously because the deadline is upon me.
0:43.0	Did I tell you what the first meaning of deadline was? I think I did.
0:46.0	Tell me again.
0:47.0	It was a line around a prison beyond which any prisoner trying to escape would be shot.
0:52.0	Wow.
0:53.0	Yeah, so pretty pretty grease and that's how your publishers treat you.
0:57.0	I feel at the moment.
0:58.0	It's that's what I've been doing.
1:00.0	Have you managed to avoid the coronavirus so far?
1:04.0	Because coming on the train here to Oxford, I have to tell you, there were people on the train behind their masters.
1:09.0	Really?
1:10.0	Looking anxious, I unfortunately sneezed, which was not a good thing to do under the circumstances.
1:15.0	What is the origin of the word coronavirus?
1:18.0	Because I hadn't heard the word before Christmas.
1:21.0	It's now gone global.
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