Something Rhymes with Purple - Chatoyant

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

Put your seatbelt on and relax in the passenger seat as we chauffeur you through the highways and byways of the language of the road. After easing the car out of the garage, we’ll cruise over the tarmac and the cats eyes, and try to avoid mounting the pavement before a well-earned stop at a Service Station. To pass the time en route, Gyles and Susie will discuss highway robberies, swap chicken jokes, and discover their unique CB radio handles. 10-4, looks like we’ve got ourselves a convoy. A Somethin’ Else production  We love answering your wordy questions on the show so please do keep sending them into [e-mail]  To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple  If you would like to sign up to Apple Subs please follow this link https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/something-rhymes-with-purple/id1456772823 and make sure that you are running the most up-to-date IOS on your computer/device otherwise it won’t work.  If you would like to see Gyles and Susie LIVE and in person on our Something Rhymes With Purple UK Tour then please go to https://www.tiltedco.com/somethingrhymeswithpurple for tickets and more information.  Susie’s Trio Hodophile – a lover of journeys Gadwaddick – to go on a jaunt Trouvaille – something lovely found by chance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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is it golden at 50 and diamond at 60? And the Queen is having her platinum jubilee after 70. What would the 150th event be? It is sesquicentennial. So sesqui is S-E-S-Q-U-I and then centennial. And sesqui means a half an addition. So it's like another half, if you like. So something that is sesquihoral. Do you remember I mentioned this is one of my trios. It means lasting an hour and a half. So this is our sesquicentennial show.

Well done, you. Well done, you. But most of all, all well done the purple people thank you maybe there should be this should be called a purple anniversary like yeah are there gems that are purple in color there are i think an amethyst is sort of purple isn't it well look let's create this as an amethyst anniversary okay never mind platinum it's amethyst dedicated to the purple people that's lovely and you remember where amethyst comes from no i don't know whether it actually is remotely pertinent to the purple people but amethyst goes back to the greek amethystos which means not drunken because of the belief that if you pop one in your wine glass you won't intoxicated. I've tried it and can report that it doesn't work.

But yes, let's call it the purple edition and the amethyst edition. I love that. That can be our celebratory stone. It is. And I'm celebrating something to do with words and language this week, picking up on things in the newspaper. We heard the other day that there's a plan to cut down on the number of announcements on public transport, particularly on the trains. On the canoes, yes. And I rather like that. It becomes insufferable to me. They never seem to stop.

It depends on the train you're on, of course. But they love to, maybe they seem to like the sound of their own voices. And just as you're beginning to concentrate on some work or snooze, there's somebody telling you that the coffee shop has opened or the train is running late. Obviously, some information you do need to know but my real hope is that we're going to lose the five most ghastly words in the English language as far as I'm concerned say it sorted exactly I know and it sounds like sorted sorted and I think of this every time see it say it sorted that's what they

should say what does it mean it's ridiculous see it say it sorted i mean honestly well no it means if you see something suspicious and then you tell somebody about it it's sorted that's what it means i mean honestly is that what i've been wondering for years what it meant but the thing is it's stuck in your mind so it's clearly worked whether it's an earworm isn't it it is an earworm and i don't want to hear any more of it so those are the word the five words i would like to see banned understood do you know where tanoi comes from incidentally no tell me it's a contraction of tantalum alloy so tantalum being a mineral and tantalum alloy is used as a rectifier in that kind of speaking system and a rectifier is a device that

as a rectifier in that kind of speaking system. And a rectifier is a device that converts, I've had to look this up, an alternating current into a direct one by allowing a current to flow through it in one direction only. So that's your physics lessons for the day. But yeah, tantalum alloy became tannoy. Tantalum alloy. Yes. And it's a contraction of that. Yes. Tannoy. Well, let's get off the train and onto the road because boom, boom, we thought we'd hit the high road for our 150th and talk about roads and words to do with roads. Where does the word road come from, from the start? It's a really interesting one in that it's got lots of siblings that you wouldn't necessarily put together. But road actually is the sibling of road as as in R-O-D-E, and riding out.

Because of course, a lot of journeys originally were made on horseback. So if you think of a journey, that goes back to the French journée, meaning a day. And the journey was originally a sort of day's length of riding out on horseback. It's also road related to raid, because a lot of these journeys were actually made

as sort of militant attacks against other people. So, yes, it's got a lot, it's an interesting family, that one, but that's where it comes from. Very old word. So, we've hit the road. There's the motorway, the highway. What's the difference between a road and a street? I mean, there's so many words for roads, aren't there? I know. I think we could actually spend probably far too long going on to it. Because I think so many of these words are just used interchangeably now, aren't they? Whether it's not a motorway, obviously, that's got a very specific meaning. But we're talking about roads and streets, etc. I think it's to do with size and quite similar to towns and cities.

But I can tell you where pavement comes from, because that's quite nice. That goes back to the Roman pavimentum which meant to trodden down floor um and it comes from pavere which of course gave us paving um etc as well and it's to beat or tread down so it's all about footfall um a pavement and do you love going i mean you've got an electric car now so i imagine that journeys are actually luxury for you are they lovely no it's a nightmare we because we have what's known as a range fear the electric car spent most of its life sitting in the garage because uh it can go i think something like 320 miles but my wife particularly is apprehensive that we're going to get into it we're going to get lost we're not going to get back it does in fact tell you the it's you know

it's got a computer screen that tells you where the nearest charging point is. So we've got range fear. Also, it's a bit disconcerting. It seems to drive itself. It comes out of the garage on its own. You then get into it and you sit behind the wheel. But it corrects your driving. You're driving along. It thinks you're going too near the side. It jumps push you know oh it's all it's a bit frightening to be honest so it's either silent which is a bit eerie or it's making these corrective sounds as it moves you from one side of the road to the other i can't say i am loving it and it's actually making me go far more often by train so maybe it's doing the right thing it's driving me

more onto public transport yeah that is a good thing. You're avoiding the tarmac. Ah, where does tarmac come from? Tarmac, well, it's tar, the substance that we know as tar. And then the mac bit, as most people will know, it began as tar macadam, because it was named after John Macadam. And he was a surveyor who was the first to advocate using this material. And I love the word tar, well, I hate tar itself, but I love the word tar, because actually, originally, it was mostly distilled from wood. And so we think it's a relative of the word tree. Just as true, it also comes from tree, which I love. But that's another story. I love these words that owe their origin to people. There's a word for it that isn't there. Eponyms, yeah.

Eponyms. And I know we did a programme about them once upon a time, a podcast, but we should do another because there's so many of them. I'm thinking of being on the road. When I was a child, we used to call, at a zebra crossing, we used to call the lights at a zebra crossing, Belisha beacons. I don't know what they're called now. Those lights that are black and white stripes

with an orange thing on the top that flashes. I think they are still called Belisha beacons, aren't they? And they were named after Leslie Belisha, who was a... Leslie Hor Belisha. Hor Belisha. He was a politician, wasn't he? And I think he was the transport minister in the 1930s when they were introduced. Oh, that's interesting.

Yes, lots of eponyms. You're right. Well, I'm going to move on to cat's eyes just because, you know, when they say, if you could have invented one thing, looking back, if you could claim one thing as your invention what would it be it would have to be cat's eyes because a there are so many of them that you'd probably make a fortune but also I mean how brilliant and just how simple an idea so simply ingenious really another reason why I love it is because there is a word in English for shining like the eyes of a cat, not just the ones on the road, but the eyes of a real cat. And that is chatoyant, which is just beautiful.

Chatoyant from French, obviously. We brought it into English. They're glistening like the eyes of a cat. I mean, do we actually use that word in the English language? It sounds totally French. It's in the dictionary, yeah. Chatoyant. Chatoyant.

Chatoyant means your eyes are gleaming like a cat's eyes. Like a cat's eyes like a cat's eyes which is just beautiful um this is speaking of pronunciation because i very much doubt that now that it is in english if it catches on we will probably mangle it so it's a little bit easier for our english-speaking tongue but for you is it garage or garage garage yeah definitely as in garage music i just used to call it garage music and got laughed out of town for that one. Genuinely, I referred to garage music and I've never quite lived it down. But yeah, I was taught garage as well, but it's very much a regional thing, isn't it?

Maybe a sort of, I don't know, is it still a class thing? I don't know if it's still in the new, non-new. I don't know. I assume it's a French word, garage. It is. It comes from the French gare, meaning to shelter. So it's somebody where you would shelter your car. And I suppose automobile comes from the French.

Auto is they call a car auto. Ultimately from Latin. So mobile gave us mob as well. And then auto meaning, you know, automatic. So yes, automobile. And oh my goodness, I mean, there's so many words. You've got trunk roads and artery roads. We should go through some of those.

But first of all, do you like service stations? I love a service station. I spend most of my life, I often tweet pictures of me sitting at a service station. They all now are exactly the same. I don't know where I am, whether I'm near Manchester or near Oxford. Oxford services is one that I'm often in. I don't have where I am, whether I'm near Manchester or near Oxford. Oxford services is one that I'm often in.

I don't have a favourite one. They all sort of merge. I used to love The Little Chef, which are not on motorways. They were off sort of A roads. I remember those. I think they've gone. I used to love A Little Chef breakfast. I know, there are some Little Chefs still around.

But this was when I was growing up. If we were ever lucky enough to go out for dinner around but this was when i was growing up if we were ever lucky enough to go out for dinner on a saturday night when i was little it would be to the little chef and that was that was the height of sophistication and um yeah i just remember the pancakes the pancake stack it was just unbeatable really well my favorite service station has to be gloucester and i think i'm not alone because I think Gloucester service station was voted the top in the country because it's all to do with being sustainable. And it's delicious at the same time. So it all comes, it's like a big farm shop.

It's no more expensive. I don't think that any other service station, let's face it, they are mostly exorbitant. And it's just gorgeous. It's just got a lovely feel to it. How long has the word service station been around? Is it an American expression? Yes, 1910 is the first record of it in the New York Times. And it says the Anderson Carriage Company,

maker of the Detroit Electric, has opened a showroom and service stations. I don't think it means quite the same as the one that we think today, but that was the first mention that we have of something to do with cars and stopping in that way they are some people absolutely in fact i have to say i think that lawrence our brilliant producer has a secret thing for service stations one day we'll have to ask him why but i'm guessing he's been to quite a few um should we go through some of the expressions that have roads in them please do well also just talk about things like trunk roads and arteries, because those are all quite interesting in themselves, I think.

Forgive me. First, what's the difference between a motorway and a highway? I think there's going to be a lot of international stuff here. We're going to have purple people from, as it were, across the pond who are going to say a lot of this language to do with cars. We're not getting here. I suspect a motorway is the British thing and the highway is the American equivalent. It is. But of course, we used to have highways here as well. In British English, the King's or the Queen's Highway was the public road network and that was regarded as being under royal protection. So the first highway was actually a specific road regarded as belonging to the monarch, which is quite interesting. And then it became in the 13th century a public road. So it was the principal road that formed the usual, almost direct route between one town or city and another.

Yeah, so we had that for quite a long time. Give me the trunk road. Anything to do with elephants and their trunks? Well, yes, because trunk comes from the Latin truncus, which meant the main stem of a tree. That's why we have tree trunks. And then it's a terrible pun coming, but it branched out in lots of different tree. That's why we have tree trunks. And then it's terrible pun coming, but it branched out in lots of different directions. So the meaning of that main stem gives us the human body, the trunk of the human body, and others with that idea of a central connection, such as the trunk road and the chest or box, you know, if you've got a trunk or a chest that arose because early trunks were made out of tree trunks so trunk

is kind of the main stem i suppose and an artery is an important root in a system of road so not too dissimilar and that goes back to a greek word meaning to raise because arteries were thought by the ancient greeks and ancient medics to be air ducts and they found that they didn't contain blood after death and so they thought that they contained this kind of ethereal fluid and so it's they were kind of elevated or raised or sort of loftier than anything else i like that i remember spaghetti junction i'm not sure that it exists in the same way it does i think it does i mean I think it was applied to any really complex, wiggly, multi-level road junction. And it particularly is the one near the M6 for us in Britain, isn't it, near Birmingham.

But yeah, because it looks like spaghetti and junction itself goes back to the Latin jungere, or jungere, J-U-N-G-E-R-E, meaning to join. Well, look, all roads lead to Rome. Let's now go into the phrases that, as it were, the highway has given us. Give us some of them and their origins, if you can. Okay, well, All Roads Lead to Rome, I think, goes back to a French text from the 12th century, but it was based on Latin as well. And it was just because, obviously, Rome was so important, so it was seen as the sort of main destination for things. So you will find that going back to,

you know, very, I mean, it's there in Chaucer and it's there in a lot of Latin texts before then as well. Get the show on the road. That's a very show busy thing, isn't it? That's American, as you might expect, 1940s. And is that date, is that a circus expression originally, when the circus comes to town and you... Quite possibly. So the first reference that we have so far is from the Daily Texan, which was a newspaper from the 1940s. Let's put the show on the road, sugarpuss. We're going to a rat race. Oh, goodness.

Where else do we get? The highway robbery? Well, that's highwaymen, I assume, who would stop you on the highway, wearing masks, riding horses, your money or your life? And do you remember that there was a code? It was obviously really, really dark. And there was a code amongst highwaymen that if they met somebody who was a fellow highwayman, in other words, you know, I'm one of you, don't try and hold me up. Their code phrase or one of them was the music's paid. obscure but the music's paid meant i'm one of you leave me alone i'm going to start using that in a sort of everyday way when you meet somebody who's actually an ally they may not realize it you just sidle up to them you say the music's paid it's brilliant do you have any good why did the chicken cross the road jokes by the way

no do you not really no the one that i used to tell the kids which was really awful is uh why did the chicken cross the road and it was traffic in other words it just it doesn't really work they didn't get it either why did the rubber chicken cross the road tell me to stretch his legs oh i like that we ought to have a break and then i want to I want to tell you what your CB handle might be, because I think we ought to talk a little bit about brilliant truckers. Please, we must do that. Hit the road, Jack. I mean, hit the road, Susie. It's time for our break. Hi, I'm Jesse Tyler Ferguson, host of the podcast Dinners on Me. I take some of my favorite people out to dinner, including, yes, my Modern Family co-stars,

like Ed O'Neill, who had limited prospects outside of acting. The only thing that I had that I could have done was organize crime. And Sofia Vergara, my very glamorous stepmom. Well, why do you want to be comfortable? Or Julie Bowen, who had very special talents. I used to be the crier. Or my TV daughter, Aubrey Anderson Emmons, who did her fair share of child stunts.

They made me do it over and over and over. You can listen to Dinners on Me wherever you get your podcasts. conversations hey no too basic hi there still no what about hello handsome who knew you could give yourself the ick that's why bumble is changing how you start conversations you can now make the first move or not with opening moves you simply choose a question to be automatically sent to your matches then sit back and let your matches start the chat. Download Bumble and try it for yourself. When we left you, I mentioned the phrase hit the road, Jack. Susie, do you know the origin of that? That's that brilliant song, isn't it? Hit the road, Jack. Don't you come back no more, no more,

no more. I think it was written by someone called Percy Mayfield, but it was made popular a little bit later by, was it Ray Charles? Oh, it's the song. I mean, I assumed the phrase was existing already and it was picked up and used in the song. It's the song that made the phrase famous. I think so. Yeah. And it just basically means go away. It's like my way or the highway as well, isn't it? That's another one. That's like, there is no alternative apart from leaving. If you don't accept my things, you can go my way or the highway. I quite like that one too. But I promised to look at trucker lingo because I studied this a little bit, thanks to some fantastic correspondents who I found on Twitter, actually, and the lingo that they have. And, you know, I kind of rather

romantically thought that they still spoke on their cb radios and they would all have their handles and it would be smoky this and smoky that and there is a little bit of that left but actually they're mostly on their mobile phones these days obviously hands free but there's a fantastic website where you can actually find out what your own cb handle would be so basically you take the initial for your your first name and your surname and then they will tell you what it might be should i tell you okay tell me godfather blackbeard oh i like it godfather blackbeard gives you godfather and then the brand just gives you blackbeard my one is switchblade dot not sure about that one i think we'll go with the godfather they're both extraordinary does all that still go on cb I mean, I felt that was a thing from the 70s.

Yeah, no, I think it is. There's not too much there, but they do still have, you know, lots of fantastic slang words. So I mentioned Smokey. So Smokey on rubber is a police vehicle. A Smokey with ears is police who can tune into your cb radio if it exists and there's lots of others they call the aa men or women yellow erics i think they need to come up with yellow ericas as well there actually and they're just i mean they have they have loads do you remember they used to be the cb radio truckers would be called the friends of charlie brown and they'd say you know keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down or keep your nose between the ditches and smokey out of your britches catchy on the flip which is the one the way back Rojo which was okay and then oh my goodness they've

just they've got absolutely loads and I really I delighted I have to say in kind of finding out some of these because they were really fun you'll be pleased to know that one of my grandchildren has just come in and put a piece of paper in front of me on which I read the following. Why did the chicken cross the playground to get to the other slide? Oh, I love that. And there's another one that he's given me. Why did the chewing gum cross the road? It was stuck to the chicken's foot.

Oh, and he's got one more here. Okay. Why did the whale cross the ocean to get to the other tide? Ooh, this is quite clever. He and his brother, they're very, very clever. And their dad has now come in with one. He is very clever indeed. This is a mathematical version.

one. He is very clever indeed. This is a mathematical version. Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip to get to the same side? Isn't that clever? That's very complex. That is so clever. God, that's very sophisticated. That is. Well, I mean, my son is a lawyer, so that explains it. So I think we've just had a really sort of whistle-stop tour of roads. We should return to them sometime. Can I just ask, before we leave the roads, you were giving us there the sort of trucker, lorry driver lingo.

Where's the origin of lorry and truck? And is one an American word and another a British word? Truck is American, lorry is British? Yeah, so the truck takes its name from the Latin, trocca. So again, we need to go back to the Romans. So this was a Roman wheel or actually a hoop that was used as a either as a toy or in athletics you know much as you might have a hula hoop these days it was it was quite a serious thing and then it evolved to mean a wooden wheel or a roller and then it came to something that moved on wheels

and i think the first record of the modern version is from canada and it reports on an iron shod war horse that has evolved into the motor car motor truck and motorcycle of 1916 so that's where truck comes from and i don't think that the americans have lorries um but that one actually we're not completely sure where it comes from except perhaps a dialect word meaning to pull or drag which would make it quite similar to tractor which if you remember goes back to the latin traje to pull behind so that's first mentioned in 1838 whereas truck is much much older are you a good driver i'm a very good driver on the motorways because i have driven so many motorways over the years

and eaten up so many miles. So I think I'm really safe on the motorways. The one thing I don't enjoy is narrow A or B roads at night. Not very good with those at night time because I find the glare of the lights, no matter which glasses or which glass are in my glasses, I find that really hard. How about you? Oh, I can't bear driving at night now. It's too terrifying. I used to drive a lot at night, coming back from gigs and things, doing, you know, after dinner speaking

or award ceremonies. But I don't anymore. I now stay at the hotel and come back the next day. Or I come back by train, which I had a sort of Damascene moment. Ah, Damascene moment, the road to Damascus. The road to Damascus, yeah. That's to do with St. Paul, isn't it?

It's a story from the Bible. St. Paul has his conversion on the road to Damascus. And Saul, wasn't it? Saul of Tarsus, who was known as Paul. Yeah, so he was converted to Christianity, wasn't he? Well, he was on his way to persecute Christians, wasn't he? And then he had his conversion to, yeah, that's in the Act of the Apostles. Yeah, I mean, roads just pop up everywhere. Well, that's good. And if you're

an international person and you think, oh my gosh, they only talked about British things, do feel free to put us on the right track. Hey, direct us to a different road. Send us up the highway where you want us to be by contacting us. It's purple at somethingelse.com, something without a G. People have been in touch. Susie, who have we heard from this week? We have heard from Jenny Oakes. Hi, love the podcast. Any thoughts on the word carnation with incarnate, carnal, etc., having logical connections? Why is carnation only a flower? Thank youenny oaks bye-bye oh that's an interesting question isn't it susie of course you say it's only a flower but as i recall in oslo all the volvos uh are

rose-colored that's because sweden is a pink carnation forgive me that's because my grandson is here feeding me these jokes. Give a proper answer to that. The word carnation, what is its root and why hasn't it gone further? Okay. Well, its root, and this explains all of those relatives that Jenny mentions there, is the Latin carne, meaning flesh. So we have carnivorous, somebody who eats flesh or meat. We have carnage, which usually means unfortunately a lot of dead flesh around. Carnal knowledge, a knowledge of the flesh. We also have carnival, which is the saying goodbye to meat for a little while when you fast, because the carnivals were normally on Mardi Gras. So the link here with the carnation is that

carnation itself was originally used to refer to a colour and it was certain tints of human flesh. So you will find references to carnation, the colour in lots of beautiful, beautiful paintings and, you know, wonderful old art, for example. And then because the carnations were often flesh coloured, so they took on the name. name and of course they are all sorts of different colours today but they are linked it was all to do with the flesh colour of the original flowers I like it very good

who else have we heard from? we have a question from Graham Holtham hello Susie and Giles hope you're well this is Graham from County Durham but I was born and raised in Jarrow South Tyneside where it was common to refer to an apple core as a gawk. Don't leave your gawk lying there, which my dad would often say.

Now, my wife is from no more than 20 miles away in County Durham, and when I moved here, neither she nor her family had ever heard the word. The same goes for my work colleagues. Only those from Tyneside specifically have ever heard the term. same goes for my work colleagues only those from Tyneside specifically have ever heard the term any ideas where the word comes from and is it unusual that a word should appear to be unique to a particularly small part of a relatively small region thank you very much I'd be very interested to hear your reply thank you Giles and Susie well that's a great question and Graham introduced me to this as well because I had never heard of gawk being applied to an apple core. So I looked it up in my dialect dictionaries. And it says, unfortunately,

Graham, it says origin unknown. So we don't quite know how it came about. I'm going to tell you about a different kind of gawk in a minute. But I would just answer your question as to whether it's unusual to have a word that's so localised. And the answer is no, because they estimate that actually British dialect changes within sometimes as little as 30 miles. So you will find different vocabulary and different sort of accent shifts as well within 30 miles,

sometimes even less, which is extraordinary. And so not at all unusual. I think it's fantastic that it's still surviving and keep using it. And hopefully it will survive for a lot, lot longer. But I mentioned the other gawk and the one that I know, and that is for,

again, a dialect word meaning a cuckoo, believe it or not. So you would have, for example, an April Fool in some places is an April gawk, particularly in Northern English and Scottish English. And it was also used for an awkward or foolish person because a cuckoo has actually got a really bad reputation, unfortunately. It comes from the Old Norse for a cuckoo, but the cuckoo itself gave us cuckold from the idea of going into someone else's nest and setting up home there. But it also, as I say, gave us lots of slang terms for a fool or somebody who is a gull, somebody who is, you know, easily duped. So the poor cuckoo does not also give us going cuckoo, in other words, going slightly mad in the olden

days. And again, the sort of the idea of being, I think it's to do with its call is so repetitive and so simple that perhaps the bird is simple minded and hence it was used for a fool. And that also gave us being kooky. So lots of different ones there but gawk definitely i'm aware of to mean a cuckoo but not an apple core so thank you for introducing me to that one it's amazing can i also say how i really adored graham's voice and his accent fantastic now suzy i hope you've got this is 150 episode, which means you've shared with us 450 unusual and interesting words. I hope the next three are going to be even more extraordinary for us. I don't know about extraordinary, but I do love them.

I thought today, first of all, because we've been talking about roads and highways and byways, this one might be pertinent. And it's hodophile, H-O-D-O-P-H-h-i-l-e now you know that a file means a lover and the greek hodos could mean a journey so it's basically a lover of roads somebody who loves going on a journey really so a hodophile i quite like that one and also if you are a hodophile then you like nothing more than gadwadicking gadwadick such a brilliant word meaning to go on a jaunt. So it's G-A-D and you know it just gives us the idea of somebody who just gads about. G-A-D and then W-A-D-D-I-C-K, gadwadick, to go on a jaunt. And then finally a French one which I'm pinching. You won't find it yet in the English language but I've talked once before about the beautiful word retrouvaille

and the retrouvaille is the joy of being reunited with somebody you haven't seen for a long time. And this is an offshoot of that. And it's simply without the at the front. And a is something lovely found by chance. And I think if you go off on your roads and on your travels, then may you find many along the way. I love it. So those are my three, which I hope other people enjoy as much as I do. I just relished those three. But Giles, do you have a poem for us? I do have a poem.

And I'd wanted to come up with a poem that included an amethyst, but I couldn't find the right poem. So I found a poem that has the word diamond in it, because this isn't our diamond jubilee. It's two diamonds and then whatever is 30 years. I don't quite know. Well, that's pearl, maybe. We must do a whole episode on those anniversaries and why they're called what they are. So much to look forward to. Anyway, this is a poem by Sarah Teasdale, and it's simply called Morning Song. and it's simply called Morning Song.

A diamond of a morning waked me an hour too soon. Dawn had taken in the stars and left the faint white moon. Oh, white moon, you are lonely. It is the same with me, but we have the world to roam over. Only the lonely are free. Oh, wow.

That's very deep. I thought it was quite a thought-provoking poem, actually, because we have such a variety of people listening to us all over the world and all sorts of people. Some people who may be living alone. Some people who may live with great groups of people. I know a lot of people listen to this podcast while walking the dog or jogging. Anyway, wherever you are, thank you for, you know, listening to Something Rhymes with Purple.

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production it was produced by lawrence bassett and Harriet Wells, with additional production from Chris Skinner, Jen Mistry, Jay Beal, and there's somebody else, isn't there? Oh, goodness gracious me. He's off on a gadwaddock. Is he? It's Gully. Gully the gadwaddocker.