Tuxedo Park

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We can hear the bells today, Purple People! Here in the UK, we have hit wedding season so Susie and Gyles have decided to provide you with some charming titbits to entertain those table guests you’ll be next to on the big day. The time for firkytoodling is done so, get out your best tux (or morning suit as Gyles will passionately advocate), find your finest corsage and we hope you remembered to RSVP because the ushers will be showing you to your seat shortly. Susie will walk us - not down the aisle - but through the big day explaining how a bride swigging her ale at the bridal party was always the way, what tractors and the bride’s dress have in common and why personal hygiene issues were to thank for a key component of the bridesmaid attire for the day. But smelly wedding guests aren’t the only people making their mark on the big day as Gyles reveals his legacy regarding the civil wedding service. We also have the latest instalment in the etymological battle for the word ‘Digs’ with contestant Brandreth coming in with some further evidence. Purple people are promised front row seats as this war of words continues to unfold. Alongside wedding invites and ‘save the date’ postcards, Susie and Gyles would love receive a correspondence from you. If you would like to get in touch with either Susie and Gyles please get in touch with us at [email protected]. A Somethin’ Else production To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple Susie’s Trio: Procaffeinating - to put everything off until you’ve had at least one mug of coffee Conjubilant - rejoicing with others Introuvable - not capable of being found, specifically of books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	Welcome to another episode of Something Rhymes with Purple. This is a podcast presented by Suzy Dent,
1:19.5	the world's leading lexicrography in my book, and her groupie friend Natmara Jars Brandt.
1:27.6	Suzy is based in Oxford. In years gone by she used to work for the Oxford English Dictionary.
1:33.4	She's now well known in the United Kingdom and beyond as the person in Dictionary Corner
1:39.1	on the daily Word and Number Game Countdown and in the comedy version, which is called,
1:46.0	it's got a funny title, the comedy version of Countdown, hasn't it? What is it called?
1:48.6	Well, it's called, 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown. It is slightly strange, but it's because it's a
1:54.6	mashup of an existing comedy show called, 8 out of 10 Cats, and that itself is based on an ad for
2:00.8	cat food brand, which was something about 8 out of 10 cats prefer it. So it's got a sort of long
2:06.4	sight, you talk to your sister, but for those of us who are on it, we just call it Catsdown. Much so.
2:10.8	Catsdown. Well, that's Suzy Dent. I'm Jars Brandt with, and my claim to fame, if I have one,
2:16.5	is that when I was a member of Parliament many years ago now in the 1990s, as a private member's
2:22.0	bill, I introduced something called the 1994 Marriage Act. And this was the legislation that enabled
2:28.1	people in England for the first time if they wanted a civil wedding to get married in a venue that
2:33.4	wasn't a register office. It's thanks to me that if you're listening to this in England,
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