Sprogs

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Susie and Gyles are getting you to use your loafs this week, as they glide through the fun and ferocious etymology behing the unique language of RAF slang. Together they'll decode the hidden stories and linguistic roots behind the expressions that echo through the Royal Air Force, bringing you closer to the fascinating evolution of words in the military context. 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: Lunting – To go for a walk and smoke a pipe. Beef-witted –16th century word for 'stupid'. Behoove: To be necessary or appropriate Gyles' poem this week was 'For Johnny' by John Pudney Do not despair For Johnny-head-in-air; He sleeps as sound As Johnny underground. Fetch out no shroud For Johnny-in-the-cloud; And keep your tears For him in after years. Better by far For Johnny-the-bright-star, To keep your head, And see his children fed. 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	Hi esteemed podcast listeners Simon Mayo and Mark Comode here.
0:03.2	I'm excited to let you know that the new season of the Crown and the Crown, the official
0:08.4	podcast returns on 16th of November to accompany the sixth and final season of the Netflix epic
0:14.4	royal drama series. Very exciting especially because super sub and friend of the show
0:18.2	Edith Bowman hosts this one. Indeed Edith will take you behind the scenes you can
0:22.1	also catch up with the story so far by searching The Crown, the official podcast, wherever you get your podcast.
0:27.6	Subscribe now and get the new series of The Crown, the official podcast first on November the 16th.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to something rhymes with purple.
0:37.0	This as our regular, very loyal listeners will know is a podcast about words and language, either words in the news or words from the past that we think might happily be resurrected.
0:50.0	And we always choose a theme every week, which gives us the basis for our wordy
0:55.2	witterings and with me as ever is Jars Brandris looking at me from a zoom screen
1:01.3	we rarely get together these days but still happy to see you Jars.
1:05.3	I'm excited to see you. I'm relieved to see you because I've spent an hour and eight minutes
1:10.8	on the telephone this morning trying to transfer from my debit account some money to my
1:17.7	credit account because my credit card kept saying yes it declined declined and yes and I was in Maryland high
1:29.1	street opposite daunt's bookshop do you know the I do. It's a lovely bookshop with a wonderful gallery inside there.
1:36.2	Anyway, I treated myself to a coffee and a bough shokula, which is what you do when you've been on the low-carb diet for a while you think oh no I can't take it any longer you go in and you don't just have one
1:47.4	bow chocolat you then order a second bowelshire and it's in Maryland Street, so it's really quite expensive.
1:54.0	So I'm having a cup of tea to these Pauschukala, and then I say, the bill please.
1:58.6	And the bill comes along, and it's quite a lot of money.
2:00.5	It's 13 pounds or something.
2:01.8	But I think, well, it's been great fun I
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