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Susie Dent


Born
Woking, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
Genre
Nonfiction


Dent was educated at the Marist Convent in Ascot, an independent Roman Catholic day school. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford for her B.A. in modern languages, then to Princeton University for her master's degree in German.

Dent is serves as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on long-running British game show Countdown. At the time she began work on Countdown in 1992, she had just started working for the Oxford University Press on producing English dictionaries, having previously worked on bilingual dictionaries.
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Guilty by Definition
3.93 avg rating — 9,745 ratings — published 2024 — 25 editions
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Word Perfect: Etymological ...
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Dent's Modern Tribes: The S...
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Interesting Stories about C...
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WHAT MADE THE CROCODILE CRY...
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Words from the Heart: An Em...
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Roots of Happiness: 100 Wor...
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Susie Dent's Weird Words
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How to Talk Like a Local: F...
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The Language Report
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“quiddling’ (attending to the trivial tasks in life as a way of avoiding the important ones).”
― Susie Dent, Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
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“Language is a democratic enterprise.”
― Susie Dent, WHAT MADE THE CROCODILE CRY:101 QUESTIONS ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE: 101 Questions about the English Language
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“And there is always the argument-closing ‘Villain, I have done thy mother’, a retort from Titus Andronicus of such eviscerating wit that we still honour it today with jokes beginning with ‘your mum’.”
― Susie Dent, Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
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