Name Susie Dent | Spouse Paul Atkins | |
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Occupation Lexicographer and television presenter Books Language Report, How to Talk Like a Local: Fro, Words of the Year, Larpers and shroomers Similar People Rachel Riley, Carol Vorderman, Sean Lock, Joe Wilkinson, Jon Richardson Profiles | ||
Children Lucy Atkins, Thea Atkins | ||
Susie dent quietly celebrates 50th birthday
Susie Dent (born November 19, 1964) is an English lexicographer and etymologist. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown every year since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, which is a late night comedy version of the show presented by comedian Jimmy Carr.
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- Education
- Television
- Published books
- References
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Education
Born in Woking, Surrey, Dent was educated at the Marist Convent in Ascot, an independent Roman Catholic day school. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford for her B.A. in modern languages, then to Princeton University for her master's degree in German.
Television
Dent is well known as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator for the letters rounds on Channel 4's long-running game show Countdown. On each episode, she also provides a brief commentary on the origin of a particular word or phrase. Dent is the longest-serving member of the show's current on-screen team, having first appeared in 1992; she has made over 2500 appearances.
While she was on maternity leave over the winter of 2007–08, she was replaced as lexicographer by Alison Heard. She also works on the spin-off show, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
Dent appeared as herself in an episode of the BBC sitcom Not Going Out.
Dent presented a web series for Channel 4 titled Susie Dent's Guide to Swearing where she explored the etymology and history of a number of English swear words.
Published books
From 2003 to 2007, Dent was the author of a series of annual Language Reports for the Oxford University Press (OUP). The first was entitled simply The Language Report, and this was followed by Larpers and Shroomers (2004), Fanboys and Overdogs (2005), The Like, Language Report for Real (2006) and The Language Report: English on the Move 2000 – 2007 (2007). The format of this publication was revised for 2008 as an A–Z collection of new and newly resurrected words. It was published in October 2008 as Words of the Year.
In 2005 the same publisher issued Winning Ways (ISBN 0199198748) and in 2009 What Made the Crocodile Cry? 101 questions about the English language (ISBN 0199574154). Dent's book about dialects, How to Talk Like a Local (ISBN 1905211791), was published in March 2010.