A funny and entertaining way to discover more about the history and meaning of language. SUSIE DENT'S WEIRD WORDS takes children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing and sometime
What is a kilter, and why are things sometimes out of it? Where does the word "snob" come from? And what is the linguistic connection between lobsters and locusts? In What Made the Crocodile Cry
Did you know that . . . a soldier's biggest social blunder is called jack brew - making yourself a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That twitchers have an expression for a bird that can't be
