As a nation we love our dialects, and there is a lot of regional variance in the names for different foods – barmcake, bap or bun anyone? Susie Dent Read Quote
Friable isn’t often used of food, yet its meaning lends itself perfectly to pastry and crumbly biscuits. Susie Dent Read Quote
I’m a big believer in change and embrace the fact that English is probably the fastest-moving language in the world. Susie Dent Read Quote
New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media – you only have to look at ‘mansplaining’ and ‘milkshake duck’ to see language evolution at work – so why not old ones too? Susie Dent Read Quote
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 down things I couldn’t make sense of. Susie Dent Read Quote
If you eat foie gras, I would really urge you to look at the practice that goes in to producing it. It is totally barbaric and involves force-feeding on the most horrific scale imaginable. Susie Dent Read Quote
When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose in a vocabulary book – usually in French or German. Susie Dent Read Quote
My work, my love of words, became my refuge, both when I was working on bilingual dictionaries for Oxford University Press and then via my involvement with ‘Countdown’ – and now ‘Catsdown,’ as I call it. Susie Dent Read Quote
I’m a work in progress. I’ve started doing spin classes, which always clears my head. Susie Dent Read Quote
