Susie Dent

We may enjoy the linguistic luxuries of spellcheckers and autocorrect, but that hasn’t resulted in the demise of typos.

Bodily functions, religion and even clothing have all been used as profanities over the centuries. Our columnist on the surprising history of swearing.

If you enjoy snuggling up with a book in bed, our columnist knows a word for that – and many other terms for bibliophiles.

Our columnist wishes we could go back to getting straight to the point.