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Radcliffe and Maconie: Lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent

23/03/2017

Lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent

BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie, Lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are joined by lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent.

Mark and Stuart are joined by lexicologist and etymologist Susie Dent, resident word expert in Dictionary Corner on TV's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie: wrestling all afternoon for your delight on the fluffy audio hearth rug. One might call the show a daily 'nepenthe' (ni-pen-thee): a magical potion that helps you forget all your troubles. Or maybe you'd say after listening to Mark and Stuart chat for five minuntes that you were 'blutterbunged': a useful old dialect word for being 'overcome by surprise and utterly confounded'. Who better to tell us more excellent words like this than lexicologist and etymologist, Susie Dent. She's the resident word expert in Dictionary Corner on C4's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and comments regularly on TV and radio on words in the news, and has contributed to Woman's Hour, 15 x 15, Word of Mouth, More or Less, Today, BBC Breakfast, and R4's Wordaholics. She's spent years interviewing hundreds of professionals, hobbyists and enthusiasts collecting the secret languages surrounding us in everyday life - from the Freemason's handshake to the publican's banter - and she's here to answer some of your word-based queries.

And that's not all, get involved with Tea Time Theme Time by trying to guess the link between 3 brilliant records sent in by one of you brilliant lot - and then there's The Chain, where over 6000 records are linked somehow to each other - and for you to choose and then could be on the radio itself, letting us all know your Chain record link! What more could you want? Eh? Eh?

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