From Susie Dent’s fascinating new book on ‘modern tribes’ The lexicographer and etymologist Susie Dent is well-known in the UK thanks to her role as the resident word expert and adjudicator on the long-running Channel 4 quiz show Countdown (the very first programme broadcast on the channel in 1982; Susie Dent joined the show in 1992). Dent […]
via The Curious and Little-Known Slang Terms Found in Modern Britain — Interesting Literature
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