Susie Dent

Susie Dent
Born	Woking, Surrey, England
Education	Marist Convent in Ascot
Occupation	Lexicographer and television presenter
Known for	Countdown (1992-Present)
Children	2

Susie Dent is an English lexicographer and etymologist. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown every year since 1992.

Born in Woking, Surrey, Dent was educated at the Marist Convent in Ascot, an independent Roman Catholic day school. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford for her B.A. in modern languages, then to Princeton University for her master's degree in German.

Dent is well known as the resident lexicographer and adjudicator on Channel 4's long-running game show Countdown. She is the longest-serving member of the show's current on-screen team, having first appeared in 1992; she has made over 2500 appearances. While she was on maternity leave over the winter of 2007–08, she was replaced as lexicographer by Alison Heard. She also works on the spin-off show, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

Susie Dent appeared as herself in an episode of the BBC sitcom Not Going Out.

Dent is married and has two children. She stated on Countdown that she follows a vegan diet.

From 2003 to 2007, Dent was the author of a series of annual Language Reports for the Oxford University Press (OUP). The first was entitled simply The Language Report, and this was followed by Larpers and Shroomers (2004), Fanboys and Overdogs (2005), The Like, Language Report for Real (2006) and The Language Report: English on the Move 2000 – 2007 (2007). The format of this publication was revised for 2008 as an A–Z collection of new and newly resurrected words. It was published in October 2008 as Words of the Year. In 2005 the same publisher issued Winning Ways () and in 2009 What Made the Crocodile Cry? 101 questions about the English language (). Dent's book about dialects, How to Talk Like a Local (), was published in March 2010.

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