The Purple Post Bag

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Purple postman has been and Gyles and Susie are eagerly digging into all the letters that we’ve had from the Purple People from all around the world! Come discover why you are reduced to nothing in an annihilation, what prats and bottoms have in common, how avatars have been around long before computers and that Susie and Gyles are no where near their parcme. We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us 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: Incompetible: Not within the range of someone’s ability. Malesuete: Having poor habits. Paracme: The point at which one’s prime is past. Gyles' poem this week was 'Misdiagnosis' by 'Mark Graham' Is a Leppard always lonely? You seldom ever see two of them together And certainly never three I wonder whether having spots is putting partners off They never look particularly sick Though you sometimes hear them cough A Somethin’ Else & 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something else.
0:09.2	Welcome to another episode of Something Rimes with Purple.
0:12.8	If you're new to our podcast for the last four years,
0:16.0	me, Charles Brandruth and my friend Suzy Dent
0:19.0	have been meeting once a week to talk about words and language,
0:22.0	particularly where words come from.
0:25.0	And, well, we've had a lot of fun doing it,
0:27.4	and we have built up a purple family, purple people,
0:30.4	because this is a podcast that's won awards
0:33.4	and is listened to around the world, which is fantastic.
0:37.4	I'm in London, England. Suzy Dent, where are you today?
0:41.4	I'm in the same place as always.
0:43.4	You recognise the fish painting behind me.
0:45.4	I'm in my study, my nook in Oxford.
0:49.4	Your study, your nook in Oxford, there is a fish painting
0:51.4	which I can see because we do this together on Zoom.
0:54.4	A word that none of us were using until quite recently,
0:59.4	not in this context, where does the word Zoom come from?
1:02.4	As in zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, being in meaning speed
1:05.4	or zooming in on a camera.
1:07.4	That's obviously predates the facility of zooming people
1:10.4	on a computer. Is it very old?
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