Susie Dent's Weird Words

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That's criminal!' Chocolate fan divides opinion with controversial list dividing UK confectionery into tiers - but do YOU think he got it right? Bethenny Frankel shares, 53, series of sweet snaps with her mini-me daughter Bryn Hoppy, 13, from Thanksgiving: 'Thankful' The changing face of Doctor Who and his companions: Your ultimate guide to every Time Lord for the 60th anniversaryWhy Susie loves it: 'Medulline (the "i" is pronounced like "eye") is a beautiful word to replace a not-so-beautiful one: pith. It has a full-bodied feel to it too.' Susie Dent (born 1964) [1] [2] is an English lexicographer, etymologist, and media personality. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a post- watershed comedy version of the show. Leaving your beauty routine out in the cold? Three beauty experts on the skin, hair and nail tips they're giving their celebrity clients this winter Bradley Cooper reveals he would do another Hangover movie in an 'instant'...a decade after the comedy franchise came to a close Growing up in Surrey in the 1960s and 70s, she started learning French “almost too early,” she says, “as I struggle to learn a language orally and much prefer to see it written down”. It wasn’t until she discovered German, at school in Ascot, that things really fell into place. “There was something very warm and comforting about German, and it filled me with delight, just hearing it. To this day, when I speak German, I feel like I’m coming home.” A self-proclaimed ‘word nerd’, she would spend car journeys devouring German and French vocabulary books, and admits she would have been happier staying in the car, learning foreign words, than doing whatever exciting activity her parents had planned.

In 2019, Dent launched the gold award podcast, Something Rhymes With Purple, co-hosted with her friend Gyles Brandreth [13] and have followed up with their live theatre stage residencies using the same formula as their podcast. [14]I'm A Celeb's Nella Rose is accused of FAKING Dadgate meltdown as former campmate Sam Fox accuses her of 'playing a game for airtime'

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Look no further than the wordsmith’s tweet on Monday. As football fans raged at the news of a breakaway European Super League, Dent posted: “Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’: extreme greed; an insatiable desire for wealth at any cost.” Demi Lovato braves VERY heavy snowfall as she headlines the Top Of The Mountain Opening Concert in Austria Rita Ora flaunts her jaw-dropping figure in a revealing silver sequin co-ord as she performs at Hits Radio Live in Manchester Gigi Hadid DELETES 'anti-Semitic' post claiming Israel is 'only country that keeps children as prisoners of war' - while Israeli kids are still kept captive by Hamas I'm A Celebrity SPOILER: Tony Bellew gags while downing murky brown drink during gruesome challenge

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