Winner of the Gold Award for Best Entertainment Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2020.Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth invite you to enhance your vocabulary, uncover the hidden origins of language and share their love of words. A Somethin' Else production.
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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This week, Susie and Gyles drift off far far away to the land of sleep...
So tune in and embark on a journey through the nocturnal landscape of words.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Nescience: An absence of knowledge; ignorance.
Phobophobia: The fear of being afraid.
Rasorial: Characteristically scratching the ground for food.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)' by William Shakespeare
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
Lo! Thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee and for myself no quiet find.
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This week, Susie and Gyles explore fragrances and scents. Join us as we inhale the sweet aromas of people and places...
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Acang: To act foolishly, lose self-control.
Anythingarian: One who professes no creed in particular; an indifferentist.
Coleworts: Old news. Literally, a cabbage-like plant. From the proverb for “old news,” “coleworts twice sodden’.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Home Thoughts, From Abroad' by Richard Browning
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!
And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
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*Cough cough*... This week Susie and Gyles explore the language of diseases. From Cholera to Mumps, and Malaria to Influenza, they have you covered.
Also, we reveal the WINNERS of our 'To Dent' and 'To Brandreth' competition!
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Shackbaggerly: Disordered and unkempt.
Komorebi (Japanese): The patterns cast by sunlight filtering through trees.
Gruttling (old East Anglian dialect): A strange, inexplicable noise.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Sick Room' by Billy Collins
Every time Canaletto painted Venice
he painted her from a different angle,
sometimes from point of view
he must have imagined,
for there is no place in the city
he could have stood and observed such scenes.
How ingenious of him to visualise
a dome or canal from any point in space.
How passionate he was
to delineate Venice from perspectives
that required him to mount the air
and levitate there with his floating brush.
But I have been sick in this bed
for over sixty hours,
and I am not Canaletto,
and this airless little room,
with its broken ceiling fan
and it monstrous wallpaper, is not Venice.
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This week, Susie and Gyles unravel the intricate history of dictionaries, those indispensable guides that serve as gateways to language. From ancient lexicons to modern compendiums, we explore how dictionaries have shaped our understanding of words and the world around us. And Gyles lets us know how his weight lifting is going...
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Idioticon : A dialect dictionary.
Limbeck: To rack the brain and exhaust yourself in an effort to come up with a new idea.
Proggle: To poke, prod, or grubble about.
Gyles' poem this week was 'Shakespeare at School' by Wendy Cope
Forty boys on benches with their quills
Six days a week through almost all the year,
Long hours of Latin with relentless drills
And repetition, all enforced by fear.
I picture Shakespeare sitting near the back,
Indulging in a risky bit of fun
By exercising his prodigious knack
Of thinking up an idiotic pun,
And whispering his gem to other boys,
Some of whom could not suppress their mirth –
Behaviour that unfailingly annoys
Any teacher anywhere on earth.
The fun was over when the master spoke:
Will Shakespeare, come up here and share the joke.
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This week Susie and Gyles get lost in the world of nonsensical language, and embrace the weird, wacky and wonderful ways the English language can be.
Your favourite duo also pay homage to the masters of nonsensical language – Dr. Seuss, whose fantastical worlds and playful rhymes have enchanted generations of readers; Spike Milligan, the irreverent genius known for his zany humor and inventive wordplay; and Edward Lear, the Victorian poet and artist renowned for his witty limericks and nonsensical verse.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Spissitude: Thickness or compactness.
Latescent: Slowly becoming hidden.
Gronk: Fluff between your toes.
Gyles' poem this week was 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' by Edward Lear
I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
II
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
III
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
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This week Susie and Gyles delve back into a favourite topic, shoes.
Inspired by purple person Kevin, the origins of all manner of footwear are discussed such as Oxford's, Brogue's and Gibson's.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Obloquy: public condemnation.
Myrmidon: Someone who unscrupulously follows someone more powerful.
Naiad: a nymph of lakes, springs and rivers.
Gyles' poem this week is called 'Life Is Like A Pair Of New Shoes' by Cameron Delaney
Life's like a pair of new shoes
Their sparkling brand-new white hues
The stiff soles and laces
Tied up tightly like braces
That eventually wear down as you use
Life's like a pair of new shoes
They go in directions you choose
Down city street blocks
Wherever you walk
They stride along as you cruise
Lifes like a pair of new sneaks
When you first try to wear 'em they squeak
You run down the court
Of an athletic sport
And you show off your skilled techniques
Life's like a pair of new boots
Some fashionable leather beauts
You strut through the city
And you look real pretty
In your white collar buisness suits
Life's like a pair of new shoes
That wear out from years of good use
But soon they get old
And the insides have mold
And by the trashcan we say our "adieus"
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Sathnam has written Empireland and more recently Empireworld, two bestselling books which have garnered him critical acclaim, a Channel 4 documentary and which - even more crucially - have changed the national discourse around our colonial past. Without necessarily meaning to, Sathnam has become a historian. But his success has not been uncomplicated: he’s suffered horrendous racist abuse which has changed the way he goes out into the world (sometimes).
On How to Fail Sathnam discusses how he avoids joining in, the importance of saying thank you and why the best teachers can make a lifelong impact. Plus: why nuance in discussion is often ignored but absolutely vital.
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This week it's about the birthday boy, as we celebrate all things Gyles Brandreth.
Not only does Gyles spoil us with a plethora of his famous anecdotes, but he becomes the linguistics quizmaster and places Susie in the hot seat to answer questions from his book 'Have You Eaten Grandma'.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GYLES! You are truly one of a kind.
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Galere: A coterie of undesirable people.
Chawbacon: One uninterested in culture.
Boulevardier: A lover of boulevards.
Gyles' poem this week was the incredibly emotive 'Counting Backwards' by Linda Pastan.
How did I get so old,
I wonder,
contemplating
my 67th birthday.
Dyslexia smiles:
I’m 76 in fact.
There are places
where at 60 they start
counting backwards;
in Japan
they start again
from one.
But the numbers
hardly matter.
It’s the physics
of acceleration I mind,
the way time speeds up
as if it hasn’t guessed
the destination—
where look!
I see my mother
and father bearing a cake,
waiting for me
at the starting line.
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From the latin word dicere meaning ‘to speak, to tell or to say’. This week Susie and Gyles are looking at the ultimate word bible, the dictionary!
Gyles ponders the difference between a glossary and a dictionary.
And Susie delves into prescriptivism vs descriptivism
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And now for three bite sized words from Susie in her trio:
Thruffable: Open and transparent (through).
Wambliness: An upheaval of the stomach.
Boodyankers: An exclamation of surprise or delight (Northumberland).
Gyles’s poem comes from his friend and neighbour James K Harris and is called ‘I Don’t’
I don't, of course, mean everything I say.
I mean, sometimes, I don't know what I mean.
Sometimes I have a thought which goes astray.
I start describing blue, it turns out green.
The alphabet is very volatile. Its union is hard to bring to heel. It's easy to fall victim to its guile.
You think you're describing what you feel, but then you find the words describing you.
And so one sees oneself in their dark light. One thinks one is describing what is true, then suddenly one sees one isn't right.
In which case, still, it's true that one was wrong.
Well, truth, in some guys, always comes along.
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The 90s was a crazy decade, brimming with pop culture moments that defined Britain. Susie and Gyles discuss words that gained popularity in the post Cold War era, from Cool Britannia, to the Spice Girls, Dianamania to the World Wide Web...
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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:
Solacious: Soothing or comforting.
Soodle : To linger or dawdle.
Splatherdab: A gossip.
Gyles' poem this week was 'This Boy' by Leigh Lawson, who wrote it upon the birth of his first grandson, Solomon.
He gives me joy, this boy,
Unspeakable, inexpressible.
This boy gives me joy.
Inexplicable, unexplainable.
This boy brings me joy.
Let bells ring, choirs sing,
Chimes chime, poets rhyme,
Trumpets trump, drums drum,
Feet stamp, guitars strum.
Higher than the moon,
Oh, hotter than the sun,
Deeper than the sea,
Is the joy this boy brings to me.
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