Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : I loved this chat. I think I might have mentioned to Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE that 'frobly-mobly' was the 19th-century equivalent of 'meh'.
Susie Dent
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Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : 'Nod-crafty' (17th century): having the knack of nodding with an air of great interest and understanding, when you actually tuned out hours ago.
Paul Lewis
Twitter Web App : How to save on heating bills bit.ly/3yxTyrW me in Saga Magazine, yours for only £29 for a year with really top journalists contributing Paxman, Susie Dent, Jenni Murray, Kate Humble - oh and me with 3 pages of money.
Gyles Brandreth
Twitter Web App : Oh lord.
You can catch Susie Dent in full flow on our wordy Purple podcast: gylesbrandreth.net/podcast
Susie Dent
Twitter Web App : 'Religious' is a false friend in this one - 'sacrilegious' comes from the Latin 'sacrilegus', 'stealer of sacred things', which is made up of 'sacr-', 'sacred', + legere, 'gather'.
Susie Dent
Twitter Web App : Word of the day is 'parwhobbler' (19th century): one who so monopolises a conversation that others can't get a word in edgeways.
Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : ‘Controuver’ (15th century): an inventor of false gossip; a contriver.
It’s one of the words in my trio for this week’s Something Rhymes with Purple.
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Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : A spelling tip to kick off your day, from the Sir Linkalot spelling app. It’s one of my favourites.
colin murray
Twitter for iPhone : I’m like the assistant manager, given the job until end of season. Earn respect of dressing room (Susie DentRachel Riley 💙), get some points on the board, try to win a trophy! 75 games to get it right! 🤣
Absolute honour. Fav show ever. July 14 to start of Nov.🙌
#Countdown
Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : Word of the day is ‘ipsedixitism’ (19th century): the insistence that something is ‘fact’ because someone else said so.
Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : Word of the day is ‘zwodder’: centuries-old dialect for a drowsy, languorous, horizontal state of being.
Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : That’s a smellfeast (also 16th century).
Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : Word of the day is 'lickspigot' (16th century): the person who always seems to show up just as you're cracking open a bottle of wine.
whynow
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Susie Dent
Twitter Web App : This is such a lovely and important campaign, as you'll see in the thread. Plus it gave me a chance to chuckle over photos of Chris Packham and Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 as children (and many others too).
Born Free Foundation
Sprout Social : 'No zoo in the world can provide elephants with the complex social structures and vast spaces they need to thrive.' Angela Sheldrick, CEO, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Read our new report, Elephants in Zoos: A Legacy of Shame 🐘 ⬇️
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Richard Osman
Twitter for iPhone : I keep reading I'm the favourite to be the new Countdown host. But there are 3 problems.
1. I just gave up a show I love because I have no time.
2. @susiedent and I are mortal enemies.
3. They should give the job to colin murray
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Susie Dent
Twitter for iPhone : There are many words born from mistakes. I love the fact that ‘cherry’ and ‘pea’ were both mistaken back-formations from ‘cherise’ and ‘pease’, which were wrongly taken to be plural.
Susie Dent
Twitter Web App : I love that technically we should be 'fneezing' not 'sneezing'. The 'f' was misread as a long medieval 's'. A 'fneeze' has just the right sound of a blocked nose and a snort.