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Susie Dent

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The weak (verb) shall inherit the earth

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By Susie Dent
| Substack
Photo by Edgar Chaparro on Unsplash A mathematician friend of mine recently introduced me to number personalities. There are, he told me, such things as sexy primes as well as wicked, sad, and untouchable numbers, all endowed with a human characteristic that makes their definitions a little more accessible to a layperson like me.
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Why do we say "break a leg"? Susie Dent on theatre's role in our everyday phrases

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By Susie Dent
| Saga Magazine Verified
By Susie Dent | Published - 30 Jul 2026 I’ve devoted many a weekend this year to touring my show Word Perfect, and am loving every minute of it. Not just because of my audiences – ever curious about the stories of our vocabulary, and certainly up for a laugh at the expense of other people’s typos – but also because of the gorgeous theatres up and down Britain that I’ve been lucky enough to visit.
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Hiding in plain sight

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By Susie Dent
| Substack
Photo by Teo Zac on Unsplash I’ve always loved words that wear their hearts on their sleeves. The ones that we glide over without really seeing, because something about them has changed. Take the word ‘breakfast’, or as we like to say, brek fuhst. Break it down and it becomes of course the meal that breaks our fast, the first food after the nightly abstinence of sleep.
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