Hey everyone, Dan here.
Welcome to this week's episode of Fish.
Before we get going I just want to let you know about today's guest.
Joining us this week we were so excited to be joined by someone who is genuinely British nerd royalty.
It is of course the lexicographer,
the star of Dictionary Corner from Countdown and 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown and that is Susie Dent.
Now Susie Dent is someone that we basically monitor her Twitter account on a 24 hour basis.
She's just always pumping out incredible words with these definitions and you've never heard them before and we've never met her before.
So this was such an exciting moment for us not only to be able to meet her in person,
have a nice chat but also to sit down with her on stage in front of a crowd and dork out with her.
So yeah I really hope you enjoy the episode.
We absolutely loved it and outside of that I just want to quickly mention
that you need to get your hands on Susie's two new upcoming books.
The first one comes out September 28th and that one is called Interesting Stories About Curious Words.
So it's sort of all those phrases that we know, stealing thunder, red herrings but what do they actually mean?
So this book is going to be looking into all those phrases in terms on your behalf so
that you now know who was sweet Fanny Adams or why are circles vicious.
All those questions that you might have had she's put it into an ultimate compendium to explain it all.
So that's out September 28th but then on the 5th of October she also has a book coming out called Roots of Happiness,
100 Words for Joy and Hope and that is a book for kids.