I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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Thank you. Hello just a note to say that this episode was recorded back in August before

news of the death of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Welcome to something rhymes with purple.

This is a podcast all about words and language and it's presented by me,

Charles Brandruth based in London, the United Kingdom and my colleague and long-standing friend,

the world's leading lexicographer in my view that's not her own opinion but she is recognised

internationally as one of the great wordsmiths of our time. It's Susie Dent who is in Oxford,

home of the Oxford English Tictionary. How are you? How has everything been for you Susie?

Yeah I am very well actually. It's been quite long week for me because I've had lots of

countdown recordings for those who do watch the show in Britain and since some places across the

world it's a game show and we pre-record them so we do five shows a day and we do three of those

days in a week so that's 15 shows in three days. So it's quite heavy going but a lot of fun and

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