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P G Wodehouse was born on this day in 1881, a man who went on to inspire laughter and deep affection for his literary creation of Bertie Wooster. He was also single-handedly responsible for giving the world the possibility of being “gruntled”: “He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled” (The Code of the Woosters, 1938). In this written-spoken medium that’s developing, where we write as we speak, you often need an emoji to express an emotion that may otherwise be lost.”

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Belief in devilry and the supernatural once inspired all kinds of spells and incantations, designed to counter the threat of evil. Many were contained in the “grimoire”, a magician’s book of sorcery and magic used for calling up spirits. Its spells might seek to protect against the evil eye of those who, with just a look, were thought to possess the power to bring misfortune, illness or death. For Dent, words matter. “Not because of 18th-century Latin rules about split infinitives and prepositions, but because words are joyful, and we have such a vast lexicon there for the taking.” So, what three joyous words would she use to describe herself? Our kids have been through so much recently,” Dent says of the book. “Their normality has been taken away. And I just thought, ‘Let’s celebrate the beautiful’.” Not just obviously appealing words such as “butterfly” and “lovewende” (meaning beloved) – but those that delight in everyday annoyances, such as “thunderplump: the sudden downpour of fat, heavy raindrops that leaves us drenched and dripping in minutes”. She was excited to find research, by the psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, that showed having the vocabulary to articulate happy feelings can make us better able to manage our emotions. And if we are feeling down, knowing that there is a fun word for that – the “mubble fubbles” – may at least make us feel less alone. Dent is drawn to words that delight in everyday annoyances, such as ‘thunderplump: the sudden downpour of fat, heavy raindrops According to Green’s, this phrase was coined by Truman Capote in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1958; it also made an appearance in the 1961 film: The colours in this idiom, which is thought to have emerged in the direct aftermath of Camperdown, refer to nautical battle colours. If all of a ship’s masts were broken as a result of gunnery by the enemy, the captain had little alternative but to surrender. If, however, the captain decided to fight on, this was marked by hoisting his ship’s colours on the remnants of the rigging.Sometimes also whips and jangles, this term first popped up in the mid-1940s meaning nervousness and depression. By the ‘50s, it would also mean “withdrawal from alcohol or narcotics,” according to Green’s. 11. Wiffle-Woffles Gruntled” is just one of many positive states of mind and body that were abandoned long ago. When it comes to many English adjectives, the glass seems to be decidedly half full. Perhaps the greatest delight in writing the book was choosing lost gems or obscurities from the corners of the dictionary. I made many fresh discoveries along the way.

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Not all bubble solutions are the same. You would think that there can't be ineffective bubble solution, but it's out there, especially at dollar store types of places. Beware the super-cheap no-brand stuff that might be a complete waste of time and money. Our two favorites are Fubbles and Gazillion Bubbles. Rather than saying you’re down in the dumps, consider using down in the chops (chops meaning mouth), from 1830, or down in the gills, from 1853. 6. Got the MorbsIt’s a natural evolution. Things are changing but not for the worst. It’s important to remember that the golden age of English has never been in the past,” said Susie. As it turns out, many of the happier siblings of words like these were once alive and well. “Kempt” is from the German for “combed”, and is a useful byword for being neat and tidy. These include huffle-buffs, which Susie describes as “Old, comfy clothes that you shrug on at the end of the week that are incredibly cosy and you will keep on all weekend” and tartle, “to hesitate when you’re introducing someone because you can’t remember their name – a word for an experience that we’ve all had.” The Fubbles Fun-Finiti Bubble Machine is the best bubble machine for kids that you can buy right now. After testing nearly a dozen popular bubble machines with two kids, ages 4 and 9, the Fun-Finiti is the one they consistently requested to play with time and time again. The machine has three twirling jets on top that send hundreds of bubbles into the air per minute, creating a truly magical experience that kids of any age will enjoy. Apparently, Dent has always been this way about words. She was the sort of child who can’t sit at a table without reading the label on the ketchup bottle; then studying German and French at A-level really got her “in the groove”. She did modern languages at Oxford University and then German at Princeton – and if you think she’s blissed out by English etymology, you should see her face when she talks about German. “When I listen to it and speak it, I honestly feel like I’m coming home,” she says, lighting up. She thinks it might have been Goethe who compared English to a country garden, French to an ornamental park and German to a deep, dark forest. “And that’s how it feels to me. It’s thorny and it’s dense and it’s quite dark sometimes, but I just find such joy within it.”

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While Susie Dent is keen to resurrect words and phrases frequently neglected or forgotten, she admits that language is constantly changing and evolving. The name of the great river is one of the biggest challenges of any spelling test. Too many of us have written it as “Missippi”, or with any number of s’s and p’s shoved in. Susie also sees emojis as an extension of modern communication. “In some ways, emojis are the successors of ancient hieroglyphics, they are pictorial representations of language. I don’t think we should be completely reliant on emojis but nor do I think we should be scared of them,” she said. Word Perfect is the result of a lifetime of such jottings. The book explores a word or phrase linked to every day of the year. It is essentially an anthology of words and phrases remembered through a moment in time. Some of these moments were decisive – the Battle of Copenhagen that had Nelson “turn a blind eye”; the Declaration of Independence that sealed not only autonomy of government but a separation of language too, meaning we will forever “blame” those Americans for words like “fall” and “sidewalk”, when they had been “ours” long before. Equally, Susie laughed off headlines claiming millennials now regarded use of the humble full stop as an act of passive aggression. “Again, some people think this is terrible – ‘what’s going to happen to our punctuation?’ – but this applied to online speech where young people are leaving full stops out.Words can be just as seasonal as our fruit and flowers. Autumn seems to inspire the most mellifluous of words, like “gossamer”: the fine, filmy cobwebs that float in the air and linger on the grass on a clear September morning. It is short for “goose summer”, a name once given to a dry warm spell later in the year, when geese are being fattened for Christmas; the cobwebs must have reminded people in the Middle Ages of floating, flimsy goose down.

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Susie had her own anxiety last week when a rough draft of her new Word Perfect book made it to the shops, spelling errors and all. How could we ever have foregone the insults “mumpsimus” and “ultracrepidarian”, when they so perfectly describe individuals that every one of us will recognise? The first, from the 16th century, describes someone who insists they are right despite clear evidence to the contrary, while an ultracrepidarian holds forth on subjects they know absolutely nothing about.You may also be “mayed” (possessing power), “ept”, “flappable”, “peccable”, “bridled”, and “descript”. (But never “promptu”, “petuous”, “shevelled”, “chalant”, or a “nomer”.) The category is so full that today’s survivors have been given their own linguistic moniker: “orphaned negatives”.