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It’s true too that other languages dish out positivity a little better than us. They have a splash of what the Italians call sprezzatura, a careless, thrown together nonchalance or indifference to life’s curveballs. As for joy, it would be hard to beat gigil from the Philippines. In a single word it conveys the “irresistible desire to squeeze something cute”. It’s tempting to call Susie Dent a walking dictionary, but she’s more often seen sitting at a desk, mostly on the quiz show Countdown, where she has been the resident lexicographer in Dictionary Corner since 1992.Sneddon, Dan (4 July 2022). "Countdown's Susie Dent reflects on 30th anniversary". Yahoo.com . Retrieved 15 March 2023. I enjoyed learning about the words. Whether they will stay in my head and I remember to use them as and when the time arises is a different matter. The book is very British and there will be words that those around the world will never have heard of. There are also some that British people will never have heard of because they are regional words never heard outside of their city of origin or mean something different in different parts of the country.

It’s full of interesting titbits that you can treat like a selection box of biscuits, choosing those that take your fancy and skipping over the others: rather than devouring it whole from cover to cover, it's something you might prefer to dip into from time to time. Oppenheimer, Jeni (8 June 2009). "Channel 4's Countdown supplies Susie Dent with 'extra ideas' via earpiece". The Telegraph . Retrieved 25 February 2014. In 2019, Dent launched the gold award podcast, Something Rhymes With Purple, co-hosted with her friend Gyles Brandreth [13] and have followed up with their live theatre stage residencies using the same formula as their podcast. [14] Lexicographer and all-round word expert, queen of Countdown‘s Dictionary Corner for over twenty years; regular columnist for the Independent, Radio Times and The Week, Susie Dent is a national treasure. Her warm witty tweets reintroducing us to the words that we all need more in our lives from scurryfunge (frantically tidying up by shoving things into a cupboard just before visitors arrive) to apricity, (the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day) are among the internet’s most shared – now she’s turning them into a linguistic almanac. Dent presented Channel 4 web series Susie Dent's Guide to Swearing, which explored the etymology and history of select English swear words. [11] She has also made an appearance on BBC entertainment show Would I Lie to You?. [12] In 2018, she also appeared on five episodes of the panel show House of Games.

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In Dictionary Corner with Countdown's Susie Dent, the 'dominatrix' of words". Radio Times. 8 November 2016. In 2005 the same publisher issued Winning Words ( ISBN 0199198748), and in 2009 What Made the Crocodile Cry? 101 questions about the English language ( ISBN 0199574154). Dent's book about dialects, How to Talk Like a Local ( ISBN 1905211791), was published in March 2010.