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Susie Dent
Susie Dent
English Scientist
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In the 1900s, bleaching lotions and skin-lighteners were a female imperative no matter what her colour, often carrying suggestive names like 'Fair-Plex Ointment' and 'Black-No-More.' The tiniest touch of rouge was allowed, but only if applied with great subtlety. Susie Dent
Great Matter Carrying Touch Only Imperative Colour Allowed Like Names Female Were Tiniest Often Subtlety Rouge Her Applied Suggestive
In the earliest days, make-up and moralising were intertwined. The 'cosmetic slops and washes' of the 17th and 18th centuries aimed to smooth complexions and revive a woman's 'bloom' - but their critics were never far behind. Susie Dent
Woman Intertwined Critics Cosmetic Never Days Smooth Were Bloom Revive Behind Centuries Far Earliest
I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use. Susie Dent
Words Word Girl Corner Guests Phrases About Week Obsessed Since Ideally Am Been Dictionary Quiz Expert Placed Little Little Girl Use Fortunate Each Each Week Resident
The best time to catch tribal jargon is when it's not looking. Susie Dent
Time Best Tribal Looking Best Time Catch Jargon
One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to reassess those from the past. Susie Dent
Words Language Job Past Those Evolution Constant Both New Joys Track
Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either 'blue-hot' or 'red-hot' depending on the level of intensity felt in either camp to such shifting ground. Susie Dent
Political Election Shifting Physical Districts Boundaries Most Red-Hot Terms Make Felt Camp Intensity Depending Break Either Them Manipulation Electoral Ground Level
As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and stupidity. Susie Dent
Words Stupidity Late Collected Emerged Between Revealing Dialect Gluttony Began Yorkshire Century Association
For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society. Susie Dent
Food Society Determined Person Position
In South Korea, some 20 million people share just five surnames. Every one of Denmark's top 20 surnames ends in '-sen,' meaning 'son of,' a pattern that is replicated across Scandinavia. British surnames have never favoured such neatness, and we can be grateful for that. Susie Dent
Grateful Son People Be Grateful Every Top Some Never Share Korea South Denmark South Korea Five Just Ends Pattern Meaning Across Million Neatness Million People British
We all know that little words or phrases can mean a lot, yet so few of us know just what to say. Phrases, such as 'chin up,' or 'it could be worse,' usually have the opposite effect; they feel tired and impersonal, even dismissive. Susie Dent
Tired Words Few Worse Say Phrases Could Impersonal Feel Know Opposite Effect Lot Up Just Chin Little Mean Us Even
I love both garlic and onions, and this word pithily captures the rich tastes of both. Susie Dent
Love Word Rich Onions Both Tastes Captures Garlic
Claggy is often seen as a negative word, yet for me it describes perfectly that full-mouthed feel of a treacle tart of banoffee pie. Susie Dent
Me Word Negative Seen Perfectly Feel Pie Tart Often
I like to introduce a few lost gems when I can to fellow word-lovers, and would genuinely love some of them to make a comeback. Susie Dent
Love Comeback Lost Few Introduce Would Some Gems Like Fellow Make Genuinely Them
If you eat foie gras, I would really urge you to look at the practice that goes in to producing it. It is totally barbaric and involves force-feeding on the most horrific scale imaginable. Susie Dent
You Practice Scale Would Eat Totally Horrific Look Most Involves Goes Urge Barbaric Really Producing Imaginable
I've been a worrier for as long as I can remember. Susie Dent
Remember Long Been
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