Move Over, ‘Staycation’: Susie Dent Reveals The Newest Portmanteau
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“If there’s a gap and we feel like we really need this thing that it describes… then the chances are it will endure, if only for a little while.” New words such as ‘staycation’ enter the dictionary when they fill a lexical gap and gain widespread use because “English is a democracy”, says Susie Dent. Susie Dent was speaking to Ed Vaizey on Times Radio. Listen live every Friday and Saturday, 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/
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