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Susie Dent

Claggy is often seen as a negative word, yet for me it describes perfectly that full-mouthed feel of a treacle tart of banoffee pie.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

Why use salty when you can have brackish? It carries a sense of part-water, part-salt, too, just like the sea.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

I love both garlic and onions, and this word pithily captures the rich tastes of both.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

Among the best of Hitchcock’s own psychological thrillers is ‘Spellbound,’ whose story unusually wrapped the subject of psychoanalysis around a murder mystery.

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Susie Dent

In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.

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Susie Dent

The term ‘psychological thriller’ is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while keeping blood and chainsaws to a minimum.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

In South Korea, some 20 million people share just five surnames. Every one of Denmark’s top 20 surnames ends in ‘-sen,’ meaning ‘son of,’ a pattern that is replicated across Scandinavia. British surnames have never favoured such neatness, and we can be grateful for that.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give a good thrill, but it’s rarely a comfortable one.

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Susie Dent

English may be the fastest moving language in the world, but there are plenty of concepts, sensations and everyday occurrences which lack a pithy word to describe them. Take the clunkiness of ‘the day before yesterday’ and ‘the day after tomorrow’: German provides single words for both.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

Youthquake’ wasn’t an entirely predictable choice for Oxford’s Word of 2017. It hasn’t been on the lips of an entire nation, nor is it new. But it amply fulfilled the criteria Oxford requires for selection.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

For the Anglo-Saxons, meat was the main meal of the day, which revolved around ‘before-meat’ and ‘after-meat.’ But it has ended up as the metaphor for the most basic: ‘meat and potatoes’ is as far from sassy – from ‘sauce’ – as you can get.

– Susie Dent

Susie Dent

For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person’s position in society.

– Susie Dent

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