Susie Dent
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And often people think, particularly with the Oxford English Dictionary, that a words journey is complete and it's locked in.
But that's absolutely not the case.
So we're always finding new evidence.
Sometimes I do, but honestly, there are brilliant people out there who are doing the detective work.
So there was one lovely discovery, it must have been maybe 10 years ago now, of hot dog and where that came from.
And that was from students at Harvard who generally were eating from pretty dodgy vans and generally thought that they were eating dog.
And so we were able to kind of date that.
So it's things like that, which are wonderful.
But when you say the leading...
I'm the only one people know.
I always feel such an imposter.
There are brilliant people.
No, it was a poor joke at bad meat.
That's why it was flipped, because you've got the side.