Words for Life:Verbal Vitamins For Every Day of the Year

Susie Dent

Susie Dent is the Word Apothecary - and this is her almanac: 365 verbal vitamin shots guaranteed to make every day better. In her hands these amazing foreign terms and long-lost English words can fix all the problems of modern life, large and small, whether coping with unrequited love or queue-jumpers, from what to do when you forget someone's name to why swearing is really good for you and much, much more. As Susie says, if you can name it, you can understand it. Here are 365 surprising dives into language that will entertain, inform, and enlighten everyone: from the 23 Scottish words to define different types of rain to Susie's campaign to bring back the lost positives of English. (Why be gormless when you can be GORM!) Let words be your new superpower.