Susie Dent

If you eat foie gras, I would really urge you to look at the practice that goes in to producing it. It…

— Susie Dent

Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.

— Susie Dent

No one expects the tone of an election to be mild-mannered, least of all a presidential one.

— Susie Dent

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

— Susie Dent

Glogg is a Scandinavian mulled wine, sweetened with honey, almonds, raisins and spices. Its name suits its purpose so beautifully.

— Susie Dent

I'm a work in progress. I've started doing spin classes, which always clears my head.

— Susie Dent

Quite often people ask me 'Is there a word for... ' and go on to highlight a gap in our language that…

— Susie Dent

In the middle of the 20th century, aspirations to sound 'proper' were passionately pursued. Dictionaries as late as the Seventies include many…

— Susie Dent

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite…

— Susie Dent

In all my years in 'Countdown's' Dictionary Corner, the subject most guaranteed to rankle with our viewers is the presence of Americanisms…

— Susie Dent

I'm an Arsenal fan and an even bigger Arsene fan.

— Susie Dent

We all know that little words or phrases can mean a lot, yet so few of us know just what to say.…

— Susie Dent

My work, my love of words, became my refuge, both when I was working on bilingual dictionaries for Oxford University Press and…

— Susie Dent

Every sport, every profession, every group united by a single passion draws on a lexicon that is uniquely theirs, and theirs for…

— Susie Dent

For the Anglo-Saxons, meat was the main meal of the day, which revolved around 'before-meat' and 'after-meat.' But it has ended up…

— Susie Dent

Super Tuesday is the day on which most states hold their primaries. Its darker partner is Dirty Tricks Thursday: the Thursday before…

— Susie Dent

I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted…

— Susie Dent

New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is…

— Susie Dent

Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they're tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms…

— Susie Dent

One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to…

— Susie Dent

Can I get a mochaccino?': a statement that, for many, is worse than any number of nails down a blackboard. Not on…

— Susie Dent

Booze' was once a popular term in the slang or 'cant' of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today.

— Susie Dent

In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.

— Susie Dent

Friable isn't often used of food, yet its meaning lends itself perfectly to pastry and crumbly biscuits.

— Susie Dent

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

— Susie Dent