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Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel show. Competing for wordy supremacy: Susie Dent Lloyd Langford Dave Gorman Natalie Haynes Susie Dent reveals two of her favourite now-defunct words from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary are 'pandiculation' (to stretch while yawning) and 'snirtle' (to laugh in a quiet and restrained manner). Dave Gorman comes up with a new cliche to replace 'Curiosity Killed the Cat, while Natalie Haynes tells us what the Cockney rhyming slang 'a Basil' refers to. Lloyd Langford asks the meaning of 'dumpoke' from the 1903 dictionary, 'Hobson Jobson - A Glossary of Anglo Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases' (a book which Susie Dent claims is 'a very good read'). Written by Jon Hunter and James Kettle. Producer: Claire Jones First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in May 2013.
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