Susie Dent is an English lexicographer, best known as the resident dictionary expert and adjudicator on Channel 4’s long-running game show Countdown.
Dent studied Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford and German at Princeton University, USA, after which she worked as a language teacher in the United States and for a German publisher before going to work for the Oxford University Press (OUP). She now works as a writer and contributor to discussions of language issues and words in the news.
From 2003 to 2007 she was the author of a series of annual Language Reports for the OUP. The first was entitled simply The Language Report; it 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 has been revised for 2008 as an A-Z collection of new and newly resurrected words, selected for their topicality and resonance. It was published in October 2008 as Words of the Year.
Dent studied Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford and German at Princeton University, USA, after which she worked as a language teacher in the United States and for a German publisher before going to work for the Oxford University Press (OUP). She now works as a writer and contributor to discussions of language issues and words in the news.
From 2003 to 2007 she was the author of a series of annual Language Reports for the OUP. The first was entitled simply The Language Report; it 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 has been revised for 2008 as an A-Z collection of new and newly resurrected words, selected for their topicality and resonance. It was published in October 2008 as Words of the Year.
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