Susie Dent's Top Tens: 10 best 'Lost Positives'
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
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
If you wake up and look like crap, learn these ten words offered by Susie Dent to describe yourself to others to turn their looks of horror into pleasant surprise.
We are all fascinated by the names chosen for groups of people and animals, and what they tell us. So, here are the ten best collective nouns.
This week, Susie's dug out ten English words for a supremely British obsession: the ever-changing, mind-bending weather patterns of these isles.
Susie Dent and her dictionary take a dim view of politics. For every term describing good government, there are ten or more describing the opposite.
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Susie Dent gives her top ten words for all those who find themselves relentlessly 'crumpsy' first thing – i.e. tired, irritable, and more than a little creased.
This week, Susie's come up with a whole bunch of words that might get you in trouble, but are actually really quite innocent. Honest!
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