Victoria Coren presents the series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary.

The English language delights in words for dodgy dealers, rapscallions and other sorts of scallywag. Suggs joins the hunt for the original Jack the Lad, taking him on a tour of popular 1970s music. Neil Oliver gets stuck into Glasgow slang, and wonders why so much of it is so violent. Victoria gets all dressed up, hot on the heels of that wartime classic, the spiv. Show less