Show notes for Episode 68Here are the show notes for Episode 68, in which Lisa, Jacky, Raj and Dan talk to lexicographer extraordinaire, connoisseur of coinages and expert slangster, Tony Thorne,Language consultant at King’s College London, about the words of 2024, those on his radar for 2025 and what new words tell us (or don’t) about the world we live in today.  We talk about:<ul><li>The WOTY lists of 2024</li><li>Why WOTY generates interest and column inches</li><li>What didn’t make the cut</li><li>What’s driving lexical change</li><li>Why new words aren’t all about fun and frivolity</li><li>What the words that are bubbling under for 2025 tell us about the year that could be to come</li></ul>As part of the discussion, we touch on some explicit language and themes of an adult and politically controversial nature. Tony’s website:<a href="https://language-and-innovation.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://language-and-innovation.com/</a> Tony’s 2024 piece for The Conversation:<a href="https://theconversation.com/most-words-of-the-year-dont-actually-tell-us-about-the-state-of-the-world-heres-what-id-pick-instead-246190">https://theconversation.com/most-words-of-the-year-dont-actually-tell-us-about-the-state-of-the-world-heres-what-id-pick-instead-246190</a> And Tony’s 2023 piece:<a href="https://theconversation.com/im-an-expert-in-slang-here-are-my-picks-for-word-of-the-year-218286">https://theconversation.com/im-an-expert-in-slang-here-are-my-picks-for-word-of-the-year-218286</a> We talk about words featured in some of the following articles: Collins WOTY brat:<a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty</a> <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/brat-delulu-raw-dogging-make-34013637" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Brat, delulu and raw-dogging make Collins dictionary 2024 - can you decode this Gen Z slang? - Mirror Online</a><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy87x5n0g24o" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Charli XCX&#39;s Brat crowned Collins Dictionary word of the year - BBC News</a>Telegraph on brat:<a href="http://archive.today/2024.11.01-074903/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/01/brat-collins-dictionary-charli-xcx-eras/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://archive.today/2024.11.01-074903/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/01/brat-collins-dictionary-charli-xcx-eras/</a>   The Times on brat:<a href="http://archive.today/2024.11.01-004723/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/collins-word-of-the-year-brat-20m337nhc" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://archive.today/2024.11.01-004723/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/collins-word-of-the-year-brat-20m337nhc</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/20/celebrities-make-manifest-appear-as-2024-word-of-the-year?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Celebrities make ‘manifest’ appear as 2024 word of the year | Social media | The Guardian</a> <a href="https://americandialect.org/2024-word-of-the-year-is-rawdog/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/21/how-did-rawdogging-become-part-of-polite-conversation" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">How did ‘rawdogging’ become part of polite conversation? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian</a> Dictionary Dot Com WOTYdemure:<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2024/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2024/</a>   Macquarie WOTYenshittification:<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/26/enshittification-macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year-explained" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/26/enshittification-macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year-explained</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/arts/brain-rot-oxford-word.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/arts/brain-rot-oxford-word.html</a> (alternative link:<a href="http://archive.today/2024.12.03-205352/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/arts/brain-rot-oxford-word.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://archive.today/2024.12.03-205352/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/arts/brain-rot-oxford-word.html</a> )OUP on Oxford WOTY:<a href="https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/02/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media</a>Dan’s for Byline Times:<a href="https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-what-the-oxford-word-of" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-what-the-oxford-word-of</a> (alt link:<a href="http://archive.today/2024.12.06-210125/https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-what-the-oxford-word-of" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://archive.today/2024.12.06-210125/https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-what-the-oxford-word-of</a> )Dan’s piece for Byline Times piece on ‘enshittification’:<a href="https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-words-that-define-our-enshittifed" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Words That Define Our &#39;Enshittified&#39; World</a> alt link:<a href="http://archive.today/2024.11.16-094738/https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-words-that-define-our-enshittifed" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://archive.today/2024.11.16-094738/https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-words-that-define-our-enshittifed</a> <a href="https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/news/2024-word-year" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">2024 Word of the Year | School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/21/trump-administration-kakistocracy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’ | Trump administration | The Guardian</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2024/nov/18/words-of-the-year-brat?CMP=share_btn_url" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Words of the year: maybe I’m delulu, but these don’t seem like words people actually use | Crosswords | The Guardian</a> Nancy Friedman:<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/fritinancy.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://bsky.app/profile/fritinancy.bsky.social</a> Lexis is on Bluesky:<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social</a> ContributorsLisa Casey blog:<a href="https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/</a> & Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/LanguageDebates" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)</a>Dan Clayton blog:<a href="http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">EngLangBlog</a> & Bluesky:<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social</a> Jacky Glancey Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey</a>Raj Rana & Matthew Butler Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA</a> Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive:<a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys</a>

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