Dodd’s love of wordplay and language stems back to her childhood, as her parents were, in her words, much into words, and there was an “awful lot of fun” with language in her home.
“Both my parents were fond of books, and also fond of fun, and so, you know, obviously there were serious times as well, but there was a lot of fun with words,” she explained.
“My father and I used to make up games, make up sort of imaginary animals and all sorts of silly things and have nonsense conversations about them.”
The language used in her home was also a contrast to the things she was given to read at school, which were “incredibly old-fashioned”.
“There were, you know, millions of gnomes and fairies and bits and pieces, and it was talking down kind of language,” Dodd told Tame.
“And I got a bit bored by those books, and it was only much later on, when I met books like Dr Seuss’, I suddenly realised you could be mad with language and have a fantastic time.”
