If you’d like to know a little more about some of the words I explore in my new book Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words (to be published by Virago in the United Kingdom on May 25th and by Viking Press worldwide on August 29th), you can listen to me chatting to Michael Rosen on BBC Radio Four’s Word of Mouth programme.

You can pre-order Mother Tongue here (UK) and here (US)