Something Rhymes with Purple

By Somethin' Else

Society & Culture Arts Education Literature Comedy

What's Something Rhymes with Purple about?

Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth share their love of the English language, uncover its hidden origins and help you enhance your vocabulary. This show uses the power of language and explore how it defines us. A Somethin' Else production.

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Nemophilism

11.12.2019

This week we’re going al fresco and kicking the leaves on an autumnal walk through the woods. We discuss the difference between woods and forests and the connection between forests and foreigners. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Something Rhymes with Purple episodes:

11.12.2019 Nemophilism This week we’re going al fresco and kicking the leaves on an autumnal walk through the woods. We discuss the difference between woods and forests and the connection between forests and foreigners. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
11.05.2019 Cacafuego Today we’re shaking a leg. We’ve already talked about the language of the body from the head to the chest. Now we’re going down below. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
10.29.2019 Gobelinus Wooooooo, it’s our Halloween Special! Susie and Gyles go on the hunt for the spooky meanings lurking beneath our language. Featuring fairies, oafs, seeing gremlins, the origin of wicked, evil spirits eating the flesh of corpses, grave robbers, the origin ...
10.22.2019 Haddaway We’re talking sports this week. What have boxing, horse racing and dart throwing done for the English language? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
10.15.2019 Cachinnator The words introduced to our language by poets. Featuring nerds, meeting T.S. Eliot, measuring your life in coffee spoons, runcible spoons, the bobowler, Chaucer on Twitter, pandemonium, tripping the light fantastic, limericks, fools rushing in, feeling like a gooseberry and ...
10.08.2019 Podiacide The hidden vocabulary of the body (part 1: from the head to the chest). Featuring dishevelled hair, raised eyebrows, gorgeous thoats, men in bras, Frans Titslinger, hedgehog hair, the origin of the apple of your eye, the skin of your ...
10.01.2019 Thunderplump We’re talking about the weather today. Not because we have nothing to say. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
09.24.2019 Sphallolalia There’s no synonym for love. Today we’re talking about the surprisingly limited language for love. Featuring aubergine emojis, 16th Century hot cockles, enjoying some more fandango de pokum, the meaning of limerence, eloping like a thief, Gyles’s secret wedding, flirtatious ...
09.17.2019 Quisquilious The words of the world of work. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
09.10.2019 Testiculate The hidden meanings concealed beneath our clothes. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
09.03.2019 Gyldenbollockes Surnames: where do they come from and what do they mean? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.27.2019 Corpsicle Don't pass on, this week we’re facing up to the grim vocabulary of death. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.20.2019 Brabble Mouse and Muscle. Négligé and Negligent. Rectum and Rectitude. This week we’re talking about words of a feather: unlikely linguistic double acts or siblings. A Somethin’ Else Production. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.13.2019 Zwoddery We’re nodding off talking about the language of sleep. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
08.06.2019 Firkytoodle All the world’s a stage but how much of our language originates from the theatre? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.30.2019 Pumpernickel It’s breakfast time! The linguistic adventures of some of our favourite foods. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.23.2019 Dogsbody Catty. Batty. Dog tired. Sick as a pig. Why are the animals we use in our language often negative? Should we be reporting the English language to the RSPCA For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.16.2019 Twazzy The language of Love Island. We’re talking about interjections and filler words. Do they get on your nerves? Or do they serve a purpose? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.09.2019 Tosspot We’re off to the pub with an episode all about the language of drinking. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
07.02.2019 Fartcatcher Don’t turn off: it’s a political language special. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
06.25.2019 Oxtercog A parliament of owls, a pride of lions, an odium of politicians. This week we’re talking about our favourite collective nouns. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
06.18.2019 Jirble We’re quids in. This week: the language of money. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
06.11.2019 Fobly-Mobly We’re talking local dialect this week. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
06.04.2019 Battology What do nicotine, the hoover and the silhouette have in common? They’re all eponyms. These are words named after a person. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
05.28.2019 Eggcorns This week we’re giving up the goat with slip ups. What happens when they eventually enter the language? A Somethin’ Else production. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
05.21.2019 Tartle Mind the gap. This week we’re looking for words for the things, feelings and experiences we don’t yet have names for. A Somethin’ Else Production. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
05.14.2019 Matutolypea This week we're playing word games. A Somethin' Else Production. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
05.07.2019 Ugsome The art of the euphemism. In other words: "the substitution of a mild, indirect or vague term for one considered to be harsh, offensive, embarrassing or distressing." A Somethin' Else Production. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
04.30.2019 Crambazzled Jargon unites but it also excludes. Gyles is irritated by it. Susie loves it. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
04.23.2019 Gargalesis How to master S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G. Why is it so difficult in the English language? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
04.16.2019 Lalochezia Mind your language. This week we're turning the air blue with a special episode all about swearing. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
04.09.2019 Scurryfunge Verbal virtuosos Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth take on American English. Featuring the story of Gyles's Great Great Great Grandfather, Noah Webster's gift of making spelling easier and Trump's covfefe kerfuffle. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
04.02.2019 Bang-a-bonk Word nerds Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth explore the surprising origins of the English language. A Somethin’ Else Production. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
03.19.2019 Something Rhymes With Purple Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth are here to increase your word power with a brand new podcast. Listen here to find out all about it. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy