Susie Dent is an English lexikonist and etymologist who was born on 19 November 1964. She has been showing Countdown every year since 1992 in the “Dictionary Corner” It also appears on the 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, a version postwatershed comedy of comedian Jimmy Carr’s show. She has been honorary Vice Chairman and Honorary Vice-Chairman of the CIEP since 2016.
Early life and education
She was born at Woking, Surrey and trained for the Oxbridge Entrance Examination at Marist Convent, an independent Roman Catholic day school, at Ascot. For her B.A. she went to Somerville College in Oxford. Then to Princeton University for her degree in French in modern languages.
Career
As a waitress, Dent’s first job. She had just begun work on Countdown in 1992 when she started creating English dictionaries for Oxford University Press and had been working on bilingual dictionaries before.
For a round of letters on Channel 4’s long-term game show, Dent is well regarded as a resident lexicographer and adjudicator. She also offers a brief statement on the roots of a certain word or phrase for each episode. Dent, who first appeared in 1992, is the longest serving member of the existing on-screen team of the show. During the winter of 2007-2008, she was replaced by Alison Heard as a lexicographer. Dent works on the 8 out of 10 cats spin-off show.
In the BBC sitcom episode Not Going Out, Dent appeared herself.
Dent has introduced a Channel 4 web-series titled Susie Dent’s Swearing Guide, which discusses the etymology and history of many swear words in English. She also appeared on Will I lie to you at BBC’s entertainment show? In 2018, she appeared on a panel exhibition hosted by Osman on five episodes of the House of Games.
Dent launched the Anything Rhymes With Purple Podcast, hosted by Gyles Brandreth in 2019.
Published books
Dent published a series of annual reports for the Oxford University Press from 2003 to 2007 (OUP). The first was entitled simply The Language Report and it was subsequently followed by Larpers and Shroomers (2004), Fanboys and Overodgs (2005), The Like, Language Report for Real (2006) (2007). For 2008 the format of this publication has been changed to a newly revived set of A-Z words. It was released as Words of the Year in October 2008 ( ISBN 9780199551996).
Winning Words (ISBN 0199198748) was published by the same publisher in 2005, and What made the Cry? 101 english language questions ( ISBN 0199574154). In March 2010, Dent’s book on dialects How To Speak Like a Local (ISBN 1905211791).
List of published books
First published Title Pages Publisher
November 2003 The Language Report: The Ultimate Record of What We’re Saying and How We’re Saying It 151 Oxford University Press
November 2004 Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report 174 Oxford University Press
September 2005 Winning Words 32 Oxford University Press
January 2006 Fanboys and Overdogs 163 Oxford University Press
January 2007 The Like, Language Report for Real 176 Oxford University Press
December 2007 The Language Report: English on the Move 2000–2007 166 Oxford University Press
October 2008 Words of the Year 148 Oxford University Press
November 2008 How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie 256 Random House
October 2009 What Made the Crocodile Cry? 101 Questions About the English Language 159 Oxford University Press
August 2012 Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Editor) 1568 John Murray Learning
November 2013 Susie Dent’s Weird Words 176 Scholastic Non-Fiction
October 2017 Dent’s Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain 336 John Murray
Susie Dent husband: Who is Susie Dent married to?
In the latest 8 Out of 10 Cats series SUSIE DENT is back on our screens but who is married to the famous lexicographers?
In 1992, Susie Dent joined the Countdown Team for the first time. This evening, she will be joining Jimmy Carr and Rachel Riley as she returned to our screens in the new 8 out of 10 cats series. But what is learned from the light of day about Susie’s life?
Who is Susie Dent married to?
Susie is married to Paul Atkins, her husband as a primary school teacher.
They and their daughters, Lucy and Thea, are said to live in Oxford.
It’s not clear when she and Paul tied the knot, as Susie found her private life out of sight.
In the past, however, Susie gave a peek into her life beyond the counts.
Although many people will know that Susie is a Countdow author for appearing in the famous game.
Susie’s last novel, Dent’s New Tribes: the Hidden Languages of England, is 12 books (2016).
The lexicongrapher admitted in one of Susie’s books a habit which often embarrassed Paul and Lucy and Thea, their husband.
Susie explained how she wakes in public to hear other people use language differently.
Susie explained: “If it doesn’t look, the best time to capture tribal jargon.
“I would not wake up deliberately. I’m not looking for salty gossip, just vocabulary posts I’m looking for.”
Since then, Susie has spoken about how her family teased her because of her unusual habits.
Although the Nation Susie appeared during the test, she was forced into a darkness during the commercial break, which meant angry reverie.
Susie proceeded to admit her family’s use of the term “patattoes” to make her come true.
Susie said She would have asked me about pluralism, and I would have totally skipped the issue. ‘Potatoes, I just said? ‘
“Something that’s like the way my family says ‘get back into our country, because again you’re on one.’
Susie had previously spoken to Female First in January about how she likes to keep her family life from the focus.
Susie spoke about social media fighting bullies and spoke about her ability to lead a private life.
“It was a tough decision for me to register in social media because I’m a very private person, and despite my work on television I don’t want to get too much exposure.
“I live my life and enjoy what I’m doing and my Twitter account is about language celebration and words of the day.
“You get a little criticism and it’s not good, but I like to talk with people about a subject for which I love to.” ”
Countdown star Susie Dent gives rare insight into family life
The lexicographer is a dotting mother for two children. Susie Dent is perhaps one of the longest serving participants in the Countdown panel, but becoming a mother is first and foremost a priority. The 55-year-old, married to primary-school teacher Paul Atkins, gave her husband and her two daughters, Lucy, 20, Thea, 12 a bizarre glimpse into her family life.
From her children’s spending time, she said: “Am I an early bird, up at the time of 6 o’clock. The morning’s mum time. I’m 20 o’clock, Thea 12 o’clock, and I have breakfast – oats, Brazil-nuts and seeds.
Susie has lived with her family in Oxfordshire since 1992, at the Dictionary Corner on the iconic daytime case. “If I’m not filming, I spend a lot of time at home, living in my head,” she said.
The lexicographer revealed how she spends time with her youngest daughter in the evenings. “Thea and I sometimes read a book together in the evening,” “It’s going to make us talk to Kill a Mockingbird.
“I’ve tried to show my daughters that a passion for language is a wonderful thing, but you can’t force that on a child.”
The mother-of-two featured on 8 of the 10 cats, the Countdown and the Susie dent guide for channel 4 as well as the Countdown. It has come up to 3 decades since Susie first appeared with Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman on the popular Countdown sequence.
She believes the internet has been a boon for ‘tribal lexicons’: minority vocabularies whose users were isolated in the past
It is not shocking, somehow to learn that Francis Grose, who published a Classical Vulgar Tongue dictionary in 1785, is a favorite historian of her. Thirty years after Samuel Johnson’s first English book, the book of Grose gathered 9,000 phrases which were then popular but not commonly written into scholarly texts.
He was a specialist in antiquity himself. Indeed, it was during a hunt in Dublin on antique ruins and buildings in Ireland that James Gandon, the Great Architect of Georgian Dublin, died in 1791 and had to be buried at Drumcondra in a friend’s family plot. For the dictionary, particularly Dent, he is best remembered now I just love this book. It makes me laugh.” It makes me laugh.”
However, contrary to what you might imagine, her home does not grumble under the weight of old poisonous volumes like his. “I don’t have a grand bookshop – in that respect I’m a little disappointed,” she says. Her main reference is the massive OED online, “I consult it daily” with 600,000 words and 3.5 million quotations.
In comparison to those who pretend to be in love with language, Dent is not desperate for dropping levels of correct use – or even about the diminishing “globish” vocabulary, as is well-known for its foreign dialect for global business meetings and its colourlessness.
She thinks the internet is a blessing for ‘tribal lexicons,’ first of all: minority vocabulary, which has been historically isolated but now flourishes online. More broadly, she opposes the idea that standards pot, prized everywhere by pedants: “The English age was never golden. People also complained of language bullying during the times of Keats and Shakespeare.
Johnson cites Johnson’s “a nice line” on the unthinkable in a certain time of freezing English. “So futile as the wind,” he said It would be. On the other hand, it acknowledges frustration with such common habits as people are adding an additional syllable to the words “grievous” or “bad” though they also understand their logic. She is also somewhat confused by the eighth letter of the alphabet being said by her younger girl as “Haitch” instead of “Atch.”
In England, the latter is considered a norm, but the former is making progress on all fronts, especially amongst the young. Irish emigrants from the Caribbean and (Catholic) may be an influence. When I tell her that in some parts of Ireland, especially in the North East, the way you pronounce the letter will define the ethnoreligious history she did not know is one thing concerning English: “It is a shibbolet? Do you really think so? This is fascinating.” This is interesting.
Countdown’s Susie Dent apologises for typos in her new book Word Perfect
Susie Dent has excused fans that she mistakenly printed her latest book Word Perfect with many orthodox errors.
This book called a “brilliant linguistical Almanac,” had to be published on 15 October by the countdown lexicographer.
However an early version of the text was sent to bookshops before the release date with several typographical errors in the published book.
Dent tweeted: “Thank you all for helping my work on Thursday (1st October). I just figured out a pre-edited text used for the initial print. I’m so sorry about this. I’m so sorry about this. I will be in contact with specifics about how we will resolve it as soon as possible.”She wrote in a second tweet, “I can testify today to the efficiency of ‘lalochezia’: swear to alleviate stress and frustration.”
Speaking of The Times, Dent said I just opened it up and saw that in admissions something was wrong. Then I had to close because I felt somewhat sick. A lot of mistakes happen. I didn’t really count them, and I really don’t want to.”
Dent’s punisher, John Murray, admitted the error and excused himself that The early copies of Word Perfect are no perfect word.”
Since 1992, dent has appeared in the Countdown dictionary corner alongside 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown in the comedy spin-off.
She has Language Studies at Oxford University and the University of Princeton.
Susie Dent ‘gutted’ after new book Word Perfect printed with host of typos
The lexicograph and countdown figures now say that they can testify to ‘lalochezia’ power: swear
The resident countdown lexicographer Susie Dent has testified that lalochezia or using swear to relieve stress and frustration” has been successful after finding that her latest book Word Perfect had a variety of book styles printed.
Dent announced on Thursday that it had just discovered how Word Perfect, described as a “brilliant linguistic almanac” by its publisher, had been printed in an early version of the book. “That’s how sorry I’m. “We’re going to fix it as fast as I can,” Dent said on Twitter, describing herself as “welcome” about the mistake.
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John Murray, the editor, also apologized. “We are sorry that early versions of Word Perfect are not a perfect word because of a printing error. We are making desperately needed steps to recover, repress, and resolve those copies quickly,” he added, adding that replacement customers should be contacted. However several UK bookshops have issued copies.
Dent said to Times: “I just opened it and saw in the acknowledgments that something was wrong. Then I had to close because I felt somewhat sick. A lot of mistakes happen. I didn’t really count them, and I really don’t want to.”
Since 1992, Dent’s Dictionary Corner has been featured in the Channel 4 quiz. In Word Perfect, she presents every day of the year the stories behind a word, from what May Day was an anxiety call to the significance of a snack – she eats a whole packet of biscuits without any intención.