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Something Rhymes with Purple

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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is fabulous in the most literal of senses as Susie and Gyles are looking into fables and specifically the works of one of the most famous writers; Aesop. In a slow and steady manner, we will learn about greed with the help of a goose and a golden cacklefart and how the combination of foxes and grapes can impart teachings on petulance. Be ready for many marvels, morals and myths as Susie and Gyles discuss the questions surrounding Aesop and his very existence. You will not be blowing hot and cold by the end of his episode as we hear from some more wonderful Purple People with their intriguing questions but you may be feeling some of the heat after Gyles’ sizzler of a poem. A Somethin’ Else production. We love answering your wordy questions on the show so please do keep sending them in to [email protected] To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple. We currently have 20% off all our merchandise in our store. If you would like to join the Purple Plus Club on Apple Subs please follow this link https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/something-rhymes-with-purple/id1456772823 and make sure that you are running the most up-to-date IOS on your computer/device otherwise it won’t work. Susie’s Trio Umbrageous - Creating or providing shade, shady Psithurism - Whispering of the leaves in a summer breeze Joining Giblets - Getting married Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

0:24.0

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1:00.0

Something that's...

1:07.0

Hello, purple people. Welcome to the 169th episode of Something Rhymes with Purple. This is a podcast where, week by week throughout every year,

1:19.0

Susie Dent, the world's leading lexicographer, that's not her description, it's mine and I get together to talk about words and language.

1:27.0

How are you today, Susie Dent? I am very fine because at the moment of recording it is absolutely beautiful outside.

1:34.0

So here in Britain we're enjoying some incredibly lovely, almost swallicking, whether I would say that was one of my words of the day recently on Twitter, swallicking,

1:43.0

which is when it's so hot you can scarcely breathe. How do you spell swallicking? Swallicking. So it's SWU-LL-O-C-K-I-N-G.

1:52.0

It's one of the rare words, I'm surprisingly rare, in British dialect for really, really hot weather. Obviously, we tend to focus on the drizzle.

1:59.0

Swallicking, why I like that. And how old is the word?

2:03.0

I would say at least 19th century probably before because as you know for dialect we're very dependent upon the brilliant Joseph Wright's English dialect dictionary,

2:12.0

which was compiled at the beginning of the 20th century. He was incredible, we've talked before about how Leeds University is starting up more research now into dialect

2:21.0

and actually, you know, mapping dialect in a way that was only really done by Joseph Wright and had never been done before.

2:28.0

Anyway, it's in there and it's very difficult to know because it's largely a spoken tradition, how long a lot of the words have been around for,

2:34.0

but we do know at least since the 19th century.

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