Talk the Talk
132: WotY 2025, the Final Word (with Kelly Wright)
February 17, 20261h 29m · 14,965 words
Show notes
We're talking to Dr Kelly Wright, friend of the show and data czar for the American Dialect Society. They run the biggest and most prestigious Word of the Year event, and she was there when the 2025 WotY votes came in. She's talking us through all the words we missed. Plus we get to some listener feedback. Timestamps Start: 0:00 Intros: 0:41 The ADS WotYs for 2025: 7:12 Related or Not: 1:00:51 Listener comments: 1:09:53 The Reads: 1:20:28 Outtakes: 1:27:01 Video version of this episode:
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rage bait is not really good for us. And please make sure that your level of anger is commensurate with what you can do about it, because helpless anger is a lot like depression.
“it attaches to cultures and it also suggests, oh, this person might have kind of porous cultural boundaries in a way that feels inappropriate and weird, maybe at its worst.”
“she wanted to help teachers use language that young students could understand, no matter what their background, their ethnic background, their economic background, leveling the playing field.”
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