Susie Dent’s Top 10s: Ten words we should rescue from obscurity
Among the plentiful rewards of a lifetime spent with dictionaries are the daily discoveries of words that have somehow been consigned to the lexical...
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Susie Dent’s Top 10s: Ten words with grisly backstories
Ugsome: it’s a word from the past I like to resurrect when I encounter something that is really, truly revolting. The ‘ug’ part is a borrowing from...
Susie Dent's Top 10s: Ten Characters in the Dictionary
From the mysterious Uncle Bob to the real McCoy and an intelligent Alec, the English language has plenty of examples of dictionary characters. This...
Susie Dent’s Top Tens: 10 bugbears
Language is peculiar in its ability to cause such irritation. Within the same English language, there's not just mutiny over different local dialects,...
Susie Dent’s Top Tens: 10 expressions involving numbers
In the second installment of her series on Great Big Story, Susie Dent looks at phrases from whisky measurements to pebble weights, with this week's...
Susie Dent's Top Tens: 10 'Americanisms' that aren't actually American
In a brilliant series that we're delighted to be able to bring to Great Big Story, British lexicographer Susie Dent will break down the stories behind...
