Come discover what the $10 note might have to do with Dixieland, why the city of Orleans was ‘made new’ and what ‘Mile High Ice Cream Pie’ is as we arrive at the city of New Orleans for our 3rd stop on our North America road trip. 

Susie and Gyles explore the food, the language and the Jazz Culture of one of Gyles’ favourite places in the world and he makes sure that Susie has put the city of New Orleans on her bucket list by the end of the episode. 

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If you’ve ever thought ‘There must be a word for that?’, then now is your chance to ask Susie and Gyles! To celebrate the 200th Episode of Something Rhymes with Purple, Susie and Gyles are challenging the Purple People to submit the linguistic gaps they want filling. Please email [email protected] with the subject line, ‘Is there a word for?’ Please submit entries by the 31st December.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Nubiferous: full of clouds

Nubbled: covered in small lumps (bumfled)

Frugalist (19th century): a belt-tightener

Gyles reads ‘We have not long to love’ by Tennessee Williams

We have not long to love.

Light does not stay.

The tender things are those

we fold away.

Coarse fabrics are the ones

for common wear.

In silence I have watched you

comb your hair.

Intimate the silence,

dim and warm.

I could but did not, reach

to touch your arm.

I could, but do not, break

that which is still.

(Almost the faintest whisper

would be shrill.)

So moments pass as though

they wished to stay.

We have not long to love.

A night. A day....

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It’s a knit and natter kind of episode today Purple People, as we unravel the words and phrases that are woven throughout the world of knitting. 

We’ll unstitch the mystery of what frogs have to do with knitting mistakes, how a lawyer’s wig pulled the wool over our eyes, what stitches and sticks have in common and Susie advises Gyles to avoid knitted underwear as she is certain it will cause him shivviness - the feeling of roughness caused by a new undergarment.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Metopomancy: Divination by the (lines on the) forehead or face.

Hamsterkauf - Panic buying.

Egg of Colombus - A brilliant idea that seems easy once you know how. 

Gyles reads ‘Requiescat’ by Oscar Wilde 

Tread lightly, she is near

Under the snow,

Speak gently, she can hear

The daisies grow.

All her bright golden hair

Tarnished with rust,

She that was young and fair

Fallen to dust.

Lily-like, white as snow,

She hardly knew

She was a woman, so

Sweetly she grew.

Coffin-board, heavy stone,

Lie on her breast,

I vex my heart alone,

She is at rest.

Peace, Peace, she cannot hear

Lyre or sonnet,

All my life's buried here,

Heap earth upon it.

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It’s the real deal today Purple People as we enter the palace courtesy of Tour Guide Gyles for a Royal episode. Come discover why Sovereign is ‘super’, how the King was a family man, why real tennis isn’t royal at all and how elevation was the key to prominence in the monarchy.   

Gyles seems in need of a pizza delivery service during our correspondence section thanks to Purple Person, Quentin Lotte and Susie’s trio takes us down the pub to meet the Knight of the Sprigot but make sure you don’t have a lanspresados as company!  

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:  Intumescence: bubblement; excitement: anticipation. Knight of the Spigot: a party host or pub landlord/lady. Lanspresado: one who comes to the pub with only a handful of change in their pocket.  

Gyles reads ‘The King’s Breakfast’ by A.A. Milne  

The King asked 

The Queen, and 

The Queen asked 

The Dairymaid: 

"Could we have some butter for 

The Royal slice of bread?" 

The Queen asked the Dairymaid, 

The Dairymaid 

Said, "Certainly, 

I'll go and tell the cow 

Now 

Before she goes to bed."  

The Dairymaid 

She curtsied, 

And went and told 

The Alderney: 

"Don't forget the butter for 

The Royal slice of bread." 

The Alderney 

Said sleepily: 

"You'd better tell 

His Majesty 

That many people nowadays 

Like marmalade 

Instead."  

The Dairymaid 

Said, "Fancy!" 

And went to 

Her Majesty. 

She curtsied to the Queen, and 

She turned a little red: 

"Excuse me, 

Your Majesty, 

For taking of 

The liberty, 

But marmalade is tasty, if 

It's very 

Thickly 

Spread."  

The Queen said 

"Oh!: 

And went to 

His Majesty: 

"Talking of the butter for 

The royal slice of bread, 

Many people 

Think that 

Marmalade 

Is nicer. 

Would you like to try a little 

Marmalade 

Instead?"  

The King said, 

"Bother!" 

And then he said, 

"Oh, deary me!" 

The King sobbed, 

"Oh, deary me!" 

And went back to bed. 

"Nobody," 

He whimpered, 

"Could call me 

A fussy man; 

I only want 

A little bit 

Of butter for 

My bread!"  

The Queen said, 

"There, there!" 

And went to 

The Dairymaid. 

The Dairymaid 

Said, "There, there!" 

And went to the shed.&a

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It’s a chock-a-block episode today as we dive into the chocolate box to discover how our favourite fillings got their names.

Bibacity: the quality of ‘drinking much’

Ribroast: give a good talking to

Timepleaser: one who complies with the prevailing agreements no matter what they are.

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Come discover which Italian explorer gave his name to the continent of America, why Philadelphia is the city of brotherly love and why you “Take the T” when in Boston as we travel down the East Coast of America.

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Discover what your hands have to do with manners, how the typesetters minded their p’s and q’s, why Gyles wasn’t allowed to issue the Royal Pardon and why some greetings comes at face value.   

Today, Susie and Gyles will be dissecting the language of formalities and etiquette where we will be taking a trip to court, making a few phone calls and wassailing throughout the evening.   

Toodle Pip, Ciao, Adios, See ya, Sayonara!   

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday.  

Quomodocuncquize: to make money any way you can. 

Williwaw: a sudden violent squall from the mountains. 

Gyles reads ‘Who Has Seen the Wind?’ by Christina Rossetti   

Who has seen the wind? 

Neither I nor you: 

But when the leaves hang trembling, 

The wind is passing through.  

Who has seen the wind? 

Neither you nor I: 

But when the trees bow down their heads, 

The wind is passing by  

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Recorded live at the Oxford Playhouse on Sunday 9th October 2021.  

Gyles and Susie explore the wordy world of Universities as they return to their University home of Oxford.   

Come discover what seminars have in common with semen, how gold tassels gave us the term ’Toff’, why the mortarboard and the pestle & mortar are linked and Susie shares the ultimate excuse for bunking off class early to go for a drink down The White Rabbit (an Oxford pub named after Oxford resident, Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).  

Gyles teaches Susie what it means to 'sport one's oak' and Susie shares some further sporting references revealing why chess boards and dominoes are also linked to University life.  

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:  

Peristeronic - of or relating to pigeons. 

Hirquiticke - horny teenager 

Backspang - a loophole that allows you to renege on a deal.   

Gyles read ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll   

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves       

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

All mimsy were the borogoves,       

And the mome raths outgrabe.  

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!       

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun       

The frumious Bandersnatch!”  

He took his vorpal sword in hand;       

Long time the manxome foe he sought— 

So rested he by the Tumtum tree       

And stood awhile in thought.  

And, as in uffish thought he stood,       

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,       

And burbled as it came!  

One, two! One, two! 

And through and through       

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head       

He went galumphing back.  

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?       

Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”       

He chortled in his joy.  

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves       

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

All mimsy were the borogoves,       

And the mome raths outgrabe.   

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It’s a spooky one for you Purple People as we transcend to the world of the supernatural for an etymological seance with ghosts and poltergeists.   

Discover what blazing fires and the ethereal have in common, why we climb to 7th heaven and why the mystics are so close to their secrets. 

Susie will tell us why our faulty applicants give up the ghost and Gyles shares a story that packs a punch..of should we say, a fright!  

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:   

Kalopsia -  The delusion of things being more beautiful than they are 

Mumpish - Feeling sullen, cranky, withdrawn and glum 

Simchaa - A word from Hebrew meaning gladness and joy  

Gyles read ‘Dark, dark wood’, a story developed by Cambridge English Online on behalf of the British Council.   

In the dark, dark wood, there was a dark, dark house. 

And in that dark, dark house, there was a dark, dark room.  

And in that dark, dark room, there was a dark, dark cupboard.  

And in that dark, dark cupboard, there was a dark, dark shelf.  

And on that dark, dark shelf, there was a dark, dark box.  

And in that dark, dark box, there was a ghost.  

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This is one for your sweet tooth (or is it sweet teeth?!) because we are heading to the pick’n’mix store for some sweet talk from Susie and Gyles.  

We’ll discover the link between bread and pastilles, what gyles’ favourite word lallygagging and lollipops have in common and what festivity the candy cane has to thank for its distinctive shape.  

Susie will hit the sweet spot each time as she gives us the origins of some of our sweetest phrases and Gyles shares the story of perhaps the worlds most iconic sweet store and its pick’n’mix aisle, Woolworths.   

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Eftsoons: Very soon after  

Palchrony: Tom Read Wilson’s portmanteau for being in wonderful synchrony with a friend

Eleutherophobia: A fear of freedom  

Gyles' poem this week was "Purple poem" by 'David Walser  

When making a jus in your newly bought blender  

A sip is quite hopeless, you must have a snurple  

Did you add beetroot? Then the snurple, is purple.  

And a snurple that’s purple is fit for a turtle.   

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