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Word to the wise
After reaching out to her Twitter followers, the lexicographer discovered there are a huge number of words and phrases they’d love to ban
by SUSIE DENT
The Countdown filming schedule is pretty vigorous – five shows a day, three days in a row – so lunch breaks tend to involve the kicking off of heels and a happy collapse into the nearest available chair (an action otherwise known, in the 18th century, as ‘sossing’. I like the idea of sossing and sighing at the same time). A few weeks ago, I happily reclined and picked up my phone to post my word of the day on Twitter. Only that day, for some reason, I was feeling a little mischievous, so I decided to ask people instead for the top words and phrases they would like banned from the dictionary.