Susie Dent

From 2003 to 2007, Dent was the author of a series of yearly Language Reports for the Oxford University Press. The first was simply titled 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 Words, 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. Her first novel, Guilty by Definition, was published in August 2024. List of published books • First published — Title — Pages — Publisher • November 2003 — The Language Report: The Ultimate Record of What We're Saying and How We're Saying It — 151 — Oxford University Press • November 2004 — Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report — 174 — Oxford University Press • September 2005 — Winning Words — 32 — Oxford University Press • January 2006 — Fanboys and Overdogs — 163 — Oxford University Press • January 2007 — The Like, Language Report for Real — 176 — Oxford University Press • December 2007 — The Language Report: English on the Move 2000–2007 — 166 — Oxford University Press • October 2008 — Words of the Year — 148 — Oxford University Press • November 2008 — How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie — 256 — Random House • October 2009 — What Made the Crocodile Cry? 101 Questions About the English Language — 159 — Oxford University Press • August 2012 — Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Editor) — 1568 — John Murray Learning • November 2013 — Susie Dent's Weird Words — 176 — Scholastic Non-Fiction • October 2017 — Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain — 336 — John Murray • October 2020 — Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year — 419 — John Murray • October 2022 — An Emotional Dictionary: Real Words For How You Feel — 336 — John Murray • September 2023 — Interesting Stories about Curious Words — 432 — John Murray • October 2023 — Roots of Happiness — 128 — Penguin Random House Children's UK • August 2024 — Guilty by Definition — 400 — Zaffre • August 2026 — Death Writ Large — Zaffre

Dent has been honorary vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading since 2016, as well as an honorary fellow and vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Linguists since 2023. In June 2024 Dent was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2024 Birthday Honours for services to literature and to language.