Susie Dent's Top Tens: 10 things you didn't know had a name
This week, Susie Dent's compiled a list of ten words describing oddly specific situations that, until now, you didn't know had a name.
This week, Susie Dent's compiled a list of ten words describing oddly specific situations that, until now, you didn't know had a name.
From 'trending towards' to 'reticent to', language is evolving before our eyes. Susie Dent explores 10 words and expressions that are morphing into something different from their original meanings.
This is the Susie Dent's Top Tens we have ALL been waiting for. Pub names and their origins. From kings hiding in Royal Oak trees to Henry VIII's anti-papal bull on his coat of arms, Susie Dent takes us through the nation's most common.
English is an extensive language, but there are some things we just don't have words for. Susie Dent takes a look at ten of her favourite 'untranslatables'.
Susie Dent runs through some strange etymologies. How geck became geek, farting dogs became feisty, and ballsacks became avocados and orchids.
It finally feels like winter, and even if that's making you feel blue, Susie Dent's got ten words for the festive season.
Here is a brief selection of the various individuals who might turn up at the local and some of the best historical words to describe them.
It's not all doom and gloom. This week, Susie Dent's got a jolly list of lost positives to help us all look at the world with the glass half full. Find the top ten below.Â
Susie Dent on the best German words that we don't have. What do you call that pleasurable pain when scratching a mosquito bite? Or the embarrassment you feel when a stranger is humiliated?
Susie Dent gives us her top ten euphemisms. She doesn't suffer fools and likely visits the Spice Islands once a day.
Susie Dent has no need to remind anyone there's little to celebrate at the moment. Which makes little pockets of refuge all the more important.
Anyone get a sense that we’re just fiddling about as the apocalypse approaches? If you feel beset by the mubble-fubbles, a 16th-century description of an attack of the blues or sense of impending doom, then you might at least find solace in the plethora of words in the historical dictionary for faffing about instead of attending to the important stuff.