Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

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Oppenheimer, Jeni (8 June 2009). "Channel 4's Countdown supplies Susie Dent with 'extra ideas' via earpiece". The Telegraph . Retrieved 25 February 2014.

Moreover, perhaps it isn’t all down to our attitude. Some linguists believe the geography of a language shapes its sounds, and those sounds in turn influence our thoughts. The soft, sibilant lilts of the Mediterranean, for example, may seem a perfect match for its sun-soaked skies. The waterfalls and crashing pines of northern climes, on the other hand, may have led to what the 19th-century sound symbolist Charles Nodier described as our “raw and clashing vocabularies”. It follows, perhaps, that our thinking is just as clashing and discordant as a result. CIOL Representation | CIOL (Chartered Institute of Linguists)". ciol.org.uk . Retrieved 13 June 2023. From 2003 to 2007, Dent was the author of a series of yearly Language Reports for the Oxford University Press (OUP). The first was simply titled The Language Report, and this was followed by Larpers and Shroomers (2004); Fanboys and Overdogs (2005); The Like, Language Report for Real (2006); and The Language Report: English on the Move 2000 – 2007 (2007). The format of this publication was revised for 2008 as an A–Z collection of new and newly resurrected words. It was published in October 2008 as Words of the Year ( ISBN 9780199551996). More Live Dates For Gyles Brandreth And Susie Dent Plus West End Residency". Beyond The Joke. 6 July 2022 . Retrieved 10 March 2023. Dent is well known as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on Channel 4's long-running game show Countdown. On each episode, she also provides a brief commentary on the origin of a particular word or phrase. Dent is the longest-serving member of the show's current on-screen team, first appearing in 1992; she has made more than 5,000 appearances. [7] Dent also works on the spin-off show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. [8]Khan, Introduction: Grace Dent Interviews: Coco; Parkinson, Hannah Jane (8 June 2019). " 'There's no such thing as an overshare': meet the hosts of Britain's most candid podcasts". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 June 2019. 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. She has been honorary vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading since 2016, as well as an Honorary Fellow and vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Linguists since 2023. [16] [17] Published books [ edit ]

Shahid, Sharnaz (14 October 2020). "Countdown's Susie Dent gives rare insight into home life with daughters". Hello! . Retrieved 6 February 2021. Dent was educated at the Marist Convent in Ascot, an independent Roman Catholic day school. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford for her B.A. in modern languages, then to Princeton University for her master's degree in German. I love finding new words and some are intriguing such as ‘Choreomania’ which is the compulsion to dance. What’s more, is that every word not only has a definition but it also contains information about its origins and a factual story about something related to it. In this case, in 1374 in the town of Aachen, Germany it is recorded that the citizens congregated en masse and began to dance uncontrollably. Dent is serves as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on long-running British game show Countdown. At the time she began work on Countdown in 1992, she had just started working for the Oxford University Press on producing English dictionaries, having previously worked on bilingual dictionaries. 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.Word Perfect from Susie Dent is a book filled with words you either don’t often hear these days or the original meaning behind these words has long been forgotten. The book is set out in a diary format, so that you have one word a day, beginning on New Years Day with the word ‘Crambazzled’ which in old Yorkshire dialect means to be prematurely aged through excess drinking, a word a lot of people could use on the 1st January. 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. Butcher, David. "Not Going Out – what time is it on TV? Episode 4 Series 8 cast list and preview". Radiotimes.com . Retrieved 25 July 2017. Sneddon, Dan (4 July 2022). "Countdown's Susie Dent reflects on 30th anniversary". Yahoo.com . Retrieved 15 March 2023.