Today, Susie and Gyles are blasting into outer space as they take a voyage into the linguistical world of extraterrestrial life.
Rock bands and conspiracy theories will be involved in this episode’s lexical discovery as we fly by UFO’s, Crop Circles and Area 51. Also Susie and Gyles share their own run-ins with alien life before Gyles serenades us with a rather Saucy song. 


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Susie's Trio: 
Tachyphagia - Eating very quickly
Pica - Unusual cravings, particularly experienced during pregnancy
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This week Susie and Gyles are talking dirty. No, not in that way, get your head out of the gutter... Literally.


Join us as we explore where words such as 'trash', 'garbage', 'litter' and 'trash' originate from.


So tune in and let's talk all kinds of rubbish together!


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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 


Rumptydooler: Something excellent.


(rattlers, rippers, ripsnorters, roarers, clinkers, corkers, fizzers, screamers, sneezers, hummers, dingers, humdingers, and rumptydoolers


Solivagant: Wandering alone.


Nod-crafty: Having the knack of nodding the head with an air of great understanding, when you actually tuned out ages ago.


Gyles' poem this week was 'If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking' by Emily Dickinson


If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.


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Garbelage

This week, Susie and Gyles embark on an exciting journey into the wild as we delve into the history and evolution of all things 'safari'. Discover how this term, rooted in Swahili and Arabic, has traveled through time and across continents to become synonymous with adventure and exploration.  


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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:   


Catillate: To lick the dish. 
Phubbing: Using your phone in social situations. 
Blandish: To cajole or to gently flatter.  


Gyles' poem this week was 'The Tyger' by William Blake  
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,  
In the forests of the night;  
What immortal hand or eye,  
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?  


In what distant deeps or skies.  
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 
On what wings dare he aspire? 
What the hand, dare seize the fire?  


And what shoulder, & what art, 
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 
And when thy heart began to beat. 
What dread hand? & what dread feet?  


What the hammer? what the chain, 
In what furnace was thy brain? 
What the anvil? what dread grasp. 
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?  


When the stars threw down their spears  
And water'd heaven with their tears: 
Did he smile his work to see? 
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?  


Tyger Tyger burning bright, 
In the forests of the night: 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?  


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Sabana

This week, we're unraveling the sentimental journey behind the word 'nostalgia'. Join Susie and Gyles on a linguistic journey through time, where every word is a portal to the past.
Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Desiderate: To yearn for something one once had but has now lost.
Listicle: Simply, a little list!
Natsukashii: A Japanese word used when something evokes a fond memory from your past and that is enough in itself.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Growing Old ' by Nanette Newman: 
     Growing old is like a career
only a career you didn’t train for
you didn’t expect
and you certainly didn’t want.
This ‘new’ career – creeps up on you
And surprises you.
     For instance
You find yourself saying new lines, like
‘Everything looks a bit blurry’
‘Why do my legs hurt me?’
‘Why do my arms have flabby bits?’
‘Why can’t I run any more?’
‘Why do people speak so quietly?’
‘Why is my iPad such a mystery?’
(even though my six-year-old Grandson has shown me how to work it ‘ten’ times)
And ‘why do people hide my house keys?’
     Also you suppose this New career (Growing Old) is going to
Have a long run, but
Showbusiness being what it is
It could come to a sudden end
(but perhaps best not to think about that).
     Anyway - if it does run -
You hope the notices are ‘good’
Critics might say ‘you look good for your age’
But - this is not the role you’d chosen to play.
Anyway it seems you’re stuck with it
And let's face it you have been rehearsing for it for many years!
     When you think about it 
There’s a bit of ‘Agatha Christie’ about
This new part - for instance
Skirts hanging in the wardrobe
Suddenly get smaller
Round the waist -
Something mysterious changes
The colour of your hair
Chairs try and hold on to you - so that
You can’t get out of them
     Why is print smaller?
Why do you look forward
to a hot water bottle at night?
(that’s definitely climate change)
Also, what is filling your body with liquid –
So that you have to pee all night?
(This definitely needs more research).
     Your new career
‘Being Old’
Has a long list of questions
Surrounding it - to be
Honest – the part is not
Really very well written –
And doesn’t have much
Appeal – ( no wonder Judi Dench turned it down).
     You ask yourself
Is the character you
Are now going to play
Wiser? – no – I don’t think so
Funnier? Only unintentionally
Like – when you forget
Where you’re going – or
Throw your arms round
The plumber, because
You thought he was your
Friend's husband, come
Round because he’d
Found your glasses.
     Anyway, how long you’ll be
Playing this part
(You don’t want to play)
You’ve no idea.
     You don’t feel the
Rehearsals have been
‘long enough’.
     Some of the cast
(the even older members
Have already left the
Production) – 
     You miss them.
So – this is a step
into the unknown
in your ‘new career’
a new part to play.
     Will it have a ‘long run’?
Who knows
But there you go
‘That’s Showbusiness’
So – Here we are.


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Saudade

Join us on a rhythmic journey through the history of one of the most iconic genres of music... JAZZ! Susie and Gyles dive deep into the origins and evolution of the term that defines a genre full of creativity, spontaneity, and soul.


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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 


Pelagic: Concerning the seas.
Galumptious: Tiptop; first rate.
Pursive: Short-winded.


Gyles' poem this week was 'To Dream In Jazz'


To Dream in Jazz,
Is to become Jazz,
Close your eyes and listen,
Go to where Jazz becomes life
When your eyes reopen,
You'll become Jazz,
Your words will sing the blues.


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Pizzicato

Join Susuie and Gyles this week as they unravel the linguistic roots behind murder. From the ancient origins of 'homicide' to the sinister evolution of 'assassination', we uncover the words we use to describe humanity's darkest deeds.


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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 


Suasible: Susceptible to persuasion.
Rannygazoo: Nonsense.
Fudgel: To make a big show of working whilst doing nothing at all.


Gyles' poem this week was 'The Stern Parent' by Harry Graham


Father heard his Children scream,
So he threw them in the stream,
Saying, as he drowned the third,
"Children should be seen, not heard!"


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