Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie DentRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.3mbOverview: Did you know that… STEALING SOMEONE’S THUNDER is based on a real event; The original FREELANCES were knights for hire (‘free’ + ‘lance’); Nelson was the first TO TURN A BLIND EYE (putting a telescope to his missing […]
Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent / Narrated by Louise Brealey, Jack Edwards, Susie DentRequirements: .MP3 player, 691 mbOverview: This audiobook features an exclusive introduction from Susie Dent, and an exclusive Q&A between Susie and Youtube’s Jack Edwards. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this […]
Guilty by Definition by Susie DentRequirements: .ePUB reader, 586 KB | RetailOverview: Guilty by Definition is a love letter not only to language but to the city of Oxford, wrapped within an intriguing mystery of a missing woman and considering the emotional aftershocks of her disappearance on those left behind. She’d known there would be […]
Susie Dent’s Weird Words by Susie DentRequirements: .ePUB reader, 8.5MBOverview: A funny and entertaining way to discover more about the history and meaning of language. SUSIE DENT’S WEIRD WORDS takes children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing and sometimes quite revolting origins of English words. As Susie Dent knows, even the […]
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year by Susie DentRequirements: .ePUB reader, 0.9MBOverview: Welcome to a year of wonder with Susie Dent, lexicographer, logophile, and longtime queen of Countdown’s Dictionary Corner. From the real Jack the Lad to the theatrically literal story behind stealing someone’s thunder, from tartle (forgetting someone’s name at […]