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Word perfect
Surrey Life
|October 2020
Woking-born Susie Dent has been in Countdown’s Dictionary Corner for more than 20 years. Here she shares her love affair with words and her latest book offering readers a daily dose of etymology for the soul

Your latest book feels like a ‘bible’ for anyone who has even a vague interest in etymology. Has it been a long time in the making?
In many ways it’s been a lifetime in the making! I’ve always been a word hoarder, collecting odds and ends of language that caught my eye. Even when I was little, I was far more interested in a vocabulary book than a new pair of jeans – and things haven’t changed much since! Word Perfect has allowed me to gather some of my absolute favourite etymologies – as well as some of the forgotten words from the past that we really ought to bring back. It was a joy to bring them all together.
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