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This is later with Lee Matthews,
the Lee Matthews Podcast. More of what

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you hear weekday afternoons on the Drive. John Kelly is Vice president of Editorial

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for dictionary dot com, the leading
online and mobile English language education source.

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I use it all the time.
They have updated more than three thousand new,

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updated, and revised words to the
world's premier catalog of the English language.

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To talk about those terms, John
Kelly is joining me now on the

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Drive, John, these aren't just
words, but pop culture terms as well.

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We have a wide range of categories
that these new words fall in.

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Yeah, they include pop calturns,
playing, but they also include, you

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know, a lot of the language
changes in, say artificial intelligence. This

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update, I think showcases the complexity
of what it's like to be alive right

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now, decision, fatigue, Jenner
today, I sleep, debt. But

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it also showcases the vibrancy the creativity
of our language change, grand family,

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coffee, blurs day. These are
just a few examples. Yeah, I'm

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looking at some of them myself,
and I'm kind of a word I'm a

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fan of words, especially old words
that you don't hear used much anymore,

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like matricious, pernicious, sagacious,
all those kinds of words. Those are

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great words, matricious, especially good
one. Yeah, yeah, I think

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we need to bring some of them
back. But some of these two I've

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not seen before. Jola, jola, flad, jola, bacca flawd.

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You did you did so well?
This is a ton he did so well.

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I'm sick with pernicious. No,
I'm just I think I will.

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This is an Icelandic word. It's
Icelandic. It literally means Christmas book flood

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and it refers is this wonderful tradition
of giving and reading a whole bunch of

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books in Iceland around Christmas time?
Have you ever heard of a ulogue or

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yule tide? Here? Sure?
Why the yola parts, the jo la

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part, yola voca flows. That's
kind of the same word as yule.

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That can help you remember it.
But this is just a delightful word.

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I love the fact that it exists
as a word. I love its sethisicity.

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I also love how it showcases that
English still does what it has always

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done so well, which is adding
new vocabulary by borrowing words from languages all

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around the world, including Icelanders.
Well, I guess a Jola Boca flawed

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could be referred to as well as
in the media. About this time of

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year, there's a number of books
that are released because of the upcoming Yule

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Tide season. You know, we
might. You know, I'm gonna tell

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my left photographers to be on the
lookout for a new sense of Yola vocal

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floats on books marketing. So we're
watching out. It'll it'll happen between now

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and late November. You'll see it. It'll be this book and that book,

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and then albums as well. But
I don't know if that applies to

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this word grand family. I can
guess what that is referring to. Yeah,

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a grand family is a name for
an increasingly common family structure. This

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is when you have kids that are
primarily being raised and brought up by by

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grandparents. And as the family structure
becomes more common, we need a word

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for it. And the word,
the name for it has really taken off,

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and we've we've added it to our
dictionary grandfamily dictionary dot com. We're

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talking to John Kelly, he is
one of the editors there, and they've

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updated their words for is this for
twenty twenty four or twenty twenty three well,

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we do update. We're constantly updating
the dictionary. Two kind of two

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main announcements during the year. One
you know, winter spring, and we

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do one around this time of the
year chilling off. You know, language

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change, you know centner of you
know some of the harder topics, you

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know some of those complexities I mentioned
before, as well as some of the

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brighter topics, the more fun topics
that that can bring us together. I

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have a I have a fun example
for you, Lee, since you mentioned

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you really love kind of obscure,
difficult words. You want one, Okay,

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I'll do my best. All right, here's here's one for you.

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Mount weasel. Do you want to
guess what a mount weasel is? I'm

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guessing it was a Victorian term for
something. But that's a really good guest.

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It's a really good gath And in
a way I'm gonna say, you're

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not entirely wrong, but this is
some insider baseball words for you. A

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mount weasel is a decoy entry that
is kind of an intentionally made up word

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that goes into a dictionary or encyclopedia
that is put there to make sure that

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other people aren't copying the dictionary.
So it's suddenly if it goes to market

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and you see they have this word, it kind of helps us protect rip

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and it comes from, you know, the nineteen seventies. There was an

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addition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia and
they included what is considered to be one

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of the first Mount Weasels, and
they put an entry that was Lillian Virginia

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Mount Weasels. Kind of sounds Victorian
to me. Yeah, And in their

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entry, this character supposedly died on
assignment while covering an explosion for the Fictitious

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Combustibles magazine. So this is a
fun word that's really kind of a sneaks

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peak behind. You know, how
dictionaries get made, and they do at

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dictionary dot com with the help of
John Kelly the three thousand new, updated

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and revised words for this online dictionary, including words like information, pollution,

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John NEPO baby. What is a
nepo baby? Anipo baby or nepo baby

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refers to a celebrity who's famous and
successful. It's they're they're perceived to be

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famous, largely because their their parents
were famous. So there's something that kind

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of spread on social media, poking
fun at you know, some figures in

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Hollywood. It's not a calling out, well you're you know, you're doing

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great, but are you benefitting from
your parents post coteilsnipo or the nepo n

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epo that's short for nepotism, a
favoritism, you know, like in a

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business to your family. So you
hire your nephew because he's your nephew,

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not because your nephew stood out among
all the app applicants. So that's a

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nepo baby. A malga gender,
how does that differ from cis gender?

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Amalga gender is a word that is
referring to a person whose gender identity is

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sort of an amalgamation of how they
experienced themselves gender wise, as being intersex,

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as being intersex. Gender and identity
can be a challenging area of language

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change, but there's no doubt that
it's a very dynamic area of language change.

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And in the past ten fifteen years
we have seen objectively as a dictionary

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a lot of new terms originating to
give name to new ranges of experience.

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A malda gender, you know,
a person whose gender identity is connected to

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the fact that they are intersex,
is one of those terms, and it

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along with three thousand other new terms
are out now on the dictionary dot Com.

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That's where I go whenever I'm reading
a book and see a new word

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that I didn't know or thought I
knew the meaning of and looked it up.

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And if you're like me, you'll
probably look these up and then you'll

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be able to see when people are
misusing them. Well, let's all keep

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practicing yolo vocal floats. Sure,
it's a challenging word to say, it's

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a fun it's a fun word to
say, and it's a wonderful addition to

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our vocabularies. And John Kelly,
thank you for bringing it to us from

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dictionary dot com. We'll be looking
up these words and I thank you for

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joining us. Thank you so much. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee

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Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast, and
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