Susie Dent’s murder mystery Guilty by Definition (Bookshop|Amazon) follows a lexicographer in Oxford who becomes a sleuth of a different kind, seeking the culprit in a long-unsolved killing. A lexicographer herself, Dent includes lots of obscure and...
To “summer and winter” about a matter is an old expression that means “to carry on at great length” about it. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “To Summer and Winter” I came across this old Scots expression. It’s a verb, to summer...
