Susie Dent
Podcast Host at Something Rhymes with Purple Podcast
Journalist at Freelance
That woman in Dictionary Corner.
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1 month ago |
saga.co.uk | Susie Dent
A few years ago in the Countdown studio, I decided to embrace the silliness of April Fool’s Day and deliver an origin of words that was entirely made up. t involved the history of the phrase ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, for which I invented two squabbling farmers who were in intense competition over the verdancy of their land. I went into a fair bit of detail about their agricultural fisticuffs, but my tongue stayed firmly in my cheek throughout.
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1 month ago |
saga.co.uk | Susie Dent
Whenever I scan a menu, I could sometimes do without descriptions such as "artisanal organic signature sourdough, toasted to a golden hue and suffused with salt-encrusted butter". Nor do I particularly need 'perfectly al dente pasta enveloped in a velvety bechamel sauce from a blend of barrel-aged cheeses and finished with a layer of hand-rubbed breadcrumbs'. Really, I’d much rather have toast and butter or mac and cheese and get straight to the point.
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2 months ago |
bbc.co.uk | Peter Souter |Susie Dent
Susie Dent and Peter Souter's witty romance with some sculling lessons and lexicography tips thrown in. Starring Jessica Raine and Rupert Evans. Show more by Peter Souter and Susie Dent Daisy ..... Jessica RaineDylan ..... Rupert Evans Technical Producers ..... Andrew Garratt & Alison CraigProduction Co-ordinator ..... Sara Benaim & Jenny MendezDirector ...... Sally Avens A romance with some rowing thrown in.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
saga.co.uk | Susie Dent
February is surely a time for hurkle-durkling. I’d love to leave that there and let you make up your own definition for this glorious-sounding word, but its real meaning is too good to ignore. To hurkle-durkle is to stay beneath the covers long after it’s time to get up. Not only am I a hurkle-durkler, but there is more, because lingering in bed when you should be up and about is surely never complete without a book.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
shelf-awareness.com | Susie Dent
(courtesy Cal Fire)Bookstores near the wildfires in Los Angeles have responded in a variety of ways to the devastation, becoming centers for the community to gather, help, and comfort one another, and to begin to try to deal with the terrible events of the past week. Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena has done amazing work in the days since the Eaton fire destroyed much of nearby Altadena.
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RT @wylfcen: English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin…
A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
I’m not sure what was going on in the 16th-century imagination, but this is at least a reminder that ‘to steal someone’s thunder’ originated with an event in 1709, when one theatre company nicked a thunder-making machine from another to use in their own play, leading the wounded
OED #WordOfTheDay: rounce robble hobble, n. The sound of a clap of thunder; a sound resembling this. View the entry: https://t.co/bZPU5LAXKp https://t.co/P9cOYApi7a
