Corner Quote by Susie Dent

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown'…

— Susie Dent

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

— Susie Dent

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

— Gemma Collins

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon…

— Stephanie Mills

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

— Robert Burchfield

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

— P. J. O'Rourke

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

— Chita Rivera

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip…

— Erin McKean

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

— Darren Criss

The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

— Isabella Bird

I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words are being…

— Susie Dent