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Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Take a seat, recline if you’d like or perhaps, even lie down because this week Susie and Gyles are going to be exploring the wonderful wordy world of furniture. Do you know your Chaise Lounge from your Divan? The Chesterfield from the Sedan? Get ready to be paraded around on a litter and discover why the secretaire is full of secrets, why bankruptcy ended in smashed benches and how a day-to-day bodily function named one of our most trusted household items… A Somethin’ Else production If you have any wordy wonderings or linguistical lamentations you’d like to ask to Susie and Gyles, you can get in touch by emailing [email protected] Susie’s Trio: - Testiculating - talk bollocks while waving your hands around - Groaking - Stare longingly at someone else’s food. - Cover-slut - item of clothing to hide any unsightly blemishes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.1	Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. This is Charles Brandruth welcoming you
1:14.7	to another episode of Something Rhymes with Purple. This is a podcast for people who love
1:20.0	language, and it's hosted by me and my good friend, the world's leading lexicographer,
1:25.5	Susie Dent. Hello Susie. That's not true, but I am a lexicographer.
1:29.5	You certainly are the world's leading lexicographer. Do that ring any bells that phrase, I use
1:33.9	it comfortably, then I'll begin. Yes. Now do you know why? Can you remember why? You're
1:39.1	not really old enough. Is it Jackenorio, Andy Pande, or something similar? It's that
1:43.5	generation. It is. It's the words that we used to introduce, first of all, listen with
1:47.7	mother on the radio, or the wireless, as some people used to call it. Then I think even
1:52.8	to introduce Watch With Mother on television, which is where Andy Pande did appear. Andy Pande
1:58.7	I think was on a Monday. One of my earliest memories, Andy Pande. Andy Pande is coming to play
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