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Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) with Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist Podcast

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The OED added TGIF, Burkini and Haterade to its dictionary this year. Do you keep up with the new words each year? No because I think that's usually a press release bit of game. Because they just want to annoy people. They're usually the most annoying words. Yes, exactly. Yeah, they know they're trolling people. A lot of them have very salty Twitter accounts. But also, the print edition of dictionaries, there's a limit to the number of words they can put in there. So some have to go.

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