In this weeks’ episode, we zero in on the exponential world of mathematics.

Come and join us as Susie discusses the solitary life of odd numbers and whether or not there’s an official order to words of magnitude, plus Gyles tells us about Lewis Carroll’s surprising connection to maths and logics.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Lagniappe: A free gift with another purchase

Syngenesophobia: A dislike of one’s relatives

Peen: The end of a hammer head (opposite the striking piece)

Gyles' poem this week was When I Have Fears’ by Noel Coward

When I have fears, as Keats had fears,

Of the moment I’ll cease to be

I console myself with vanished years

Remembered laughter, remembered tears,

And the peace of the changing sea.

When I feel sad, as Keats felt sad,

That my life is so nearly done

It gives me comfort to dwell upon

Remembered friends who are dead and gone

And the jokes we had and the fun.

How happy they are I cannot know

But happy am I who loved them so.

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Gyles is fresh back from Jamaica and after visiting the spiritual home of James Bond, he’s channeling his 007 spirit and taking Susie to the casino for a touch of Gambling. 

In our trip to 'the little casa', we will find out why trumps are so triumphant, why a gimmick at the gaming table might be magic and how your poker face is connected to your bragging rights and - as so often happens in English - we encounter ‘Jack’ in the form of the 'Jackpot' and 'Blackjack'.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Ignotism: A mistake due to ignorance

Grampus: One who breathes heavily/noisily

Efflagitate: To demand eagerly

Gyles' poem this week was 'Any Part of Piggy' by 'Noel Coward'

Any part of the piggy

Is quite alright with me.

Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma

Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama

Ham from Virginia, ham from York,

Trotters, sausages, hot roast pork.

Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on

Bacon with or without the rind on

Though humanitarian

I’m not a vegetarian.

I’m neither a crank nor prude nor prig

And though it may sound infra dig

Any part of the darling pig

Is perfectly fine by me.

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Come join Susie and Gyles for Part 2 of ‘The Purple People’s Linguistic Gaps’. To celebrate our 200th episode, we asked the Purple People for moments or experiences when they wished there was a specific word to describe it. Go listen back to our first instalment, ‘200 Today!’, and enjoy today’s follow up episode which is packed full of even more brilliant suggestions… We’ll explore that sensation of believing there’s an extra step at the top of the stairs only to have your foot slam down onto thin air, if there’s a name for the first produce you receive from your garden, and if we can find an English equivalent for ‘dépayser’ (the feeling of being somewhere different, somewhere other than what you are used to). We love hearing from you, find us @SomethingRhymes on Twitter and Facebook, @SomethingRhymesWith on Instagram or you can email us here: purple@somethinelse.com Want even more purple, people? Join the Purple Plus Club by clicking the banner in Apple podcasts or head to purpleplusclub.com to listen on other platforms' Don’t forget that you can join us in person at our upcoming tour, tap the link to find tickets: www.somethingrhymeswithpurple.com

Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Fulminous: Resembling thunder and lightning

Bandersnatch: An uncouth individual

Dontopedology - The art of putting one's foot in one's mouth. Gyles' poem this week was 'Life' by 'Charlotte Brontë' Life, believe, is not a dream

So dark as sages say;

Oft a little morning rain

Foretells a pleasant day.

Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,

But these are transient all;

If the shower will make the roses bloom,

O why lament its fall?

Rapidly, merrily,

Life's sunny hours flit by,

Gratefully, cheerily

Enjoy them as they fly!

What though Death at times steps in,

And calls our Best away?

What though sorrow seems to win,

O'er hope, a heavy sway?

Yet Hope again elastic springs,

Unconquered, though she fell;

Still buoyant are her golden wings,

Still strong to bear us well.

Manfully, fearlessly,

The day of trial bear,

For gloriously, victoriously,

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It’s going to be an episode full of tittle-tattle today as Gyles and Susie sit down for a good gossip as we excavate the words and idioms associated with this favourite hobby. We’ll have a good blather but stopping short of becoming a ‘blatherskite’ due to its distasteful meaning, we’ll bloviate at length with a certain ex-PM in mind as we uncover the links between this type of gossip and the stuffing in your clothes, before we discover that there are many origin stories for the phrase ‘Cock and Bull story’ that are unsurprisingly, cock-and-bull. Recorded live at The Fortune Theatre, London on Sunday 19th February. Susie’s Trio Colporteur: A person who sells books and newspapers. Potvaliance: The courage that only comes from alcohol Cryptomnesia: When you forget something and then ‘discover’ it as a new and original thought. GYLES POEM ANON - Life Spans   The horse and mule live 30 years And know nothing of wines and beers. The goat and sheep at 20 die And never taste of Scotch and Rye. A cow drinks water by the ton, And at 18 is mostly done. The dog at 15 cashes in Without the aid of rum and gin. The cat in milk and water soaks And then in 12 short years it croaks. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for nogs, then dies at 10. All animals are strictly dry They sinless live and swiftly die. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive for three score years and ten. And some of them, a very few, Stay pickled till they’re 92.

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In today’s ‘mane’ episode, there’s no horsing around as we take gallop through the etymological equine world. 

Susie explains what the name Duncan and donkeys might have in common, why we might have ‘walloped’ instead of ‘galloped’, how ponies are linked to chickens and why we need to take a trip to Canterbury to uncover the origin of the canter.

Gyles serenade us with a stallion of a song before - of course – treating us to a rather decadent name drop about the Italian jockey, Frankie Dettori. Susie also shares a few stories of her own pony, Tic-Tac as she takes us on a hack down memory lane.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Bayard: All the self-confidence of ignorance

Attercop: A Spider

Grimthorpe: To restore (an ancient building) with lavish expenditure with no taste.

Gyles' poem this week is from the book “Words From The Wild” by Mark Graham

Photographers are so serious

And often quite uptight 

I love to pop up in their zoom 

It gives them such a fright 

Best of all the close ups though 

Above them in a tree 

When as they focus on my face 

I sprinkle them with wee 

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Today we are celebrating Women’s History Month and looking at the pioneering writer, Toni Morrison. 

From her poem, ‘Someone leans near’ to her debut novel, ‘The Bluest Eye’, Susie and Gyles delve into the books, poetry, and legacy of the Nobel Literary Prize winner. We encounter Levi Roots, a trip to Princeton and a recount of the time Gyles met her (of course!) as we look at her life, work, and the impact that she has had on the English language.

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Gutling: A great eater, a glutton.

Anythingarian: One who professes no creed in particular; an indifferentist.

Unlike: To give up liking; to cease to like

Gyles' poem this week was 'Beside Tragedy' by 'Grace Nichols'

Beside Tragedy she is always damned

So seemingly carefree to the woes of the world

So seemingly enamoured of her own god giving laughter 

But who sees her waxing tears in the nights deep calm

Or knows that she too rides out the dark storm 

Who hears her whisper, ‘oh tears you too stem from the gift of salt’ 

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Today’s show was recorded live at the Fortune Theatre in London. 

Gyles’ title of European Monopoly Champion comes into play (literally) today as he - alongside Susie Dent - take us on an etymological tour of the world of Property. 

Come discover what the Bungalow has to do with Bengal, the connection between villas and villains, why Peppercorns were so important for renting before we ascend the hill of Palatine for a palatial revelation. 

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Fimble-famble: a very lame excuse.

Nixie: A letter so badly addressed it can’t be delivered.

Disco rice: dustmen-speak for maggots.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Growing Old' by 'John Sparrow '

I’m accustomed to my deafness

To my dentures I’m resigned

I can cope with my bifocals

But –o dear!– I miss my mind.

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The Purple postman has been and Gyles and Susie are eagerly digging into all the letters that we’ve had from the Purple People from all around the world!

Come discover why you are reduced to nothing in an annihilation, what prats and bottoms have in common, how avatars have been around long before computers and that Susie and Gyles are no where near their parcme.  

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Incompetible: Not within the range of someone’s ability.

Malesuete: Having poor habits.

Paracme: The point at which one’s prime is past.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Misdiagnosis' by 'Mark Graham'

Is a Leppard always lonely?

You seldom ever see two of them together

And certainly never three

I wonder whether having spots 

is putting partners off 

They never look particularly sick

Though you sometimes hear them cough

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It’s the final stop on our North American road trip and we have reached the city of technology, coffee and Frasier; it’s Seattle!

Susie and Gyles will take us on our final etymological tour in this series where we will literally skid down ‘Skid Row’, discover how Moby Dick is connected to one of the biggest coffee chains in the world and what dead bodies had to do with a very well known tech company… 

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Quincunx: An arrangement of five things in a square, with one in the centre, like a five on a dice.

Member for Berkshire: Someone with a loud nagging cough. 

A labour: The collective noun for moles. 

Gyles' poem this week was 'The Sea was Angry Today' by 'Jane McCullouch'

The sea was angry today.

I did not argue.

But watched it make its way, with familiar roar

crashing and swirling 

into the cream-foamed eddies,

besides the rocks, filling the pools,

and spilling out onto the battered shore.

And as I glanced across the sand

I thought of calmer days,

A man, two dogs, a stick in hand,

And a shimmering, glistening haze. 

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Love is in the air(waves) as Susie and Gyles get to the heart of the many different types of love in their special Valentine’s day episode on Something Rhymes with Purple. 

Susie and Gyles will explore what the cabbage has to do with reviving romance in Italy (hint: ‘cavoli riscaldiati’), how feeling a touch lusty in the spring has its own word, as well as a call out to the Purple People for a word that  describes the love you have for your pet. 

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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 

Macrosmatic: Having a very good sense of smell.

Skirl: The sound a bagpipe produces.

Conjubilate: To celebrate together.

Gyles' poem this week was 'The Old Lover' by 'Jane McCulloch' and 'Valentine' by 'Wendy Cope'

'The Old Lover' by 'Jane McCulloch' 

Was I?

Did I?

Seriously?

Was it so?

Were we?

Like that?

Really?

No!

'Valentine' by 'Wendy Cope'

“My heart has made its mind up

And I’m afraid it’s you.

Whatever you’ve got lined up,

My heart has made its mind up

And if you can’t be signed up

This year, next year will do.

My heart has made its mind up

And I’m afraid it’s you.”

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