New Words - New Theme

Sups 0:01

I surely haven't used this word in 2022

Tanner 0:05

that's so weird.

Andi 0:07

it's was a very strange collection of words. Yeah,

Sups 0:11

And it took them like out 2022 for them to add

Tanner 0:15

it. Right.

Sups 0:15

I mean,

Tanner 0:17

I

Andi 0:17

I really

Tanner 0:18

doubt that.

Sups 0:20

I don't know of all the four words that I've heard so far. Yeah. Hmm.

Andi 0:25

I think soup as soups has decided, Hello and welcome to this episode of the I Should Have Known podcast, the trivia podcast that can't be trusted. Each week our Quizmaster presents you with four big facts on a topic, but one of those facts is a lie. We are doing a new theme for the new year, and it's new. That's the whole theme. I am your quizmaster this week. I'm Andy, and I'm going to be doing an episode on new. Added to the dictionary. I'm going to give you four words. All of them were added to the Miriam Webster online dictionary in 2022, except one. So join our other hosts, soups and Tanner, and trying to figure out which word is wrong.

Sups 1:06

All right. Okay,

Andi 1:06

So if you don't know the Miriam Webster dictionary, this is a primarily American dictionary, which is something that might be useful to keep in mind.

Tanner 1:13

Mm-hmm.

Andi 1:13

So our low-hanging fruit is, what was Miriam Webster's 2022 Word of the Year, meaning the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one's own gain.

Sups 1:26

Um,

Tanner 1:27

is it like grift or something?

Andi 1:29

No. Is it gas lighting.

Sups 1:31

Gas. Oh, okay.

Tanner 1:33

It's kind of a different definition than what I expected.

Andi 1:35

I don't love that definition. Yeah. But that's their official definition. That was a quote. Yeah. So that was the word of the year. Okay. For 2022. So They added about 370 words in September of 2022.

Tanner 1:48

Hmm. Okay.

Andi 1:48

And all of these are from that list, except one. So we'll go in alphabetical order. Oh,

Sups 1:53

right,

Andi 1:55

so new word number one is Don Chorus. So Dawn Chorus is a noun. Do you wanna guess what Dawn Chorus might mean?

Tanner 2:03

It's like singing at the dawn of a day. like Kakadu do.

Andi 2:08

Don Chorus is the singing of wild birds that closely precedes or follows sunrise.

Tanner 2:14

Okay. Oh, that's a thing now.

Sups 2:16

Okay.

Tanner 2:17

Good

Andi 2:18

know. So it's birds? Yeah. Don. Chorus. Interesting. Yeah. This is a new addition to the dictionary, though. The word itself is fairly old actually.

Tanner 2:29

It sounds very poetic.

Andi 2:30

It is quite poetic. The first instance that Miriam Webster found of it being written was in 1874. I checked the Oxford English dictionary. It's also in there. most of the usages that they had were from the early 20th

Tanner 2:46

century. Can you use it in a sentence?

Andi 2:48

Yeah. I will read you the quotes from the dictionary itself. During the lockdown we haven't been allowed to forget the birds who have been louder what their dawn chorus is with no traffic to drown them

Tanner 2:59

Mm-hmm. that's what I thought. Yeah. With the pandemic.

Sups 3:02

Yeah.

Andi 3:02

So they didn't give much information on why they're added it. Yeah, I think it's probably usages have gone up in relation to, The pandemic and lockdown.

Tanner 3:10

Right. It sounds like it's been in use for hundred years-ish. So it had a long time to become more used in the public, and now it reached critical mass, and it's been added to the dictionary

Andi 3:23

Because it's not a new word. Right. But it's newly added to the Miriam Webster's dictionary.

Tanner 3:29

Some people take it to mean that it exists in the English language if it's in the dictionary. Right, But it's really just one groups. Collection trying to describe how people use words.

Andi 3:39

Yeah. I mean, the best dictionaries would be that, just simply a record of the language. But yeah, because defining a word is so difficult to do, Linguists don't talk about words because words don't exist. But one shorthand for defining word is to simply. it has an entry in a major dictionary. So that's kind of a function that dictionaries can serve. And yeah, I mean, honestly I think for this word, putting it in the dictionary, Brings it some attention, so maybe now more people will use

Sups 4:06

Yeah. it hasn't entered our common lingo. I surely haven't used this word in 2022 or the proceeding years, but okay. Don

Tanner 4:18

Yeah.

Sups 4:18

I like this word though. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I'll use it, but yeah. Good to know.

Tanner 4:22

Yeah, I really believe it that it's added maybe in the last couple years because of the pandemic and so many people noticed like nature coming back to life and Okay. I think this fits perfectly with that, so I really believe that one.

Andi 4:34

some existentialism with, yeah. Don. Chorus. Yeah.

Tanner 4:38

We'll see though. Three more entries.

Andi 4:40

Okay, so new word in the dictionary. Number two is larp in both noun and verb.

Tanner 4:48

Ah, I know this one

Andi 4:50

What is larp Indeed. Yes. So LARP comes from the Initialism of Live Action Roleplay now is an acronym, which means the Live action roleplaying game in which a group of people enacts a fictional scenario in real time.

Tanner 5:06

Yeah, and so you can LARP as a verb, or you can use it as a

Andi 5:10

Yeah. And it's also like a larp or LARPs. So, you know, role playing games, right where you sit down. Yeah. This is where instead of you're playing a character, you're moving a figurine on a board, like in d and d or something.

Sups 5:21

Yeah,

Andi 5:22

You are the figurine,

Tanner 5:24

like when people run around and play quidditch. Right. But they're doing that fighting monsters too and

Andi 5:28

stuff, right? Yeah. So let me read a quote. Okay. The Mm-hmm. So LARPers can dive into Marvel, Harry Potter, or pirate themed events, or select LARPs based on their battle styles.

Sups 5:40

Okay. Wow. and this became a thing in 2022.

Andi 5:44

It was newly added in 2022. So I think one thing to remember, Just because the word was added doesn't mean it was a thing in 2022. Some of the words they added were clearly 2022 words, like shrink ifl. Okay. That was also one of the words added this year, but not all of them are.

Tanner 5:59

Yeah. But Like I've heard of this word before this year. So yeah, it just must be so common. Or at least it's used enough that the dictionary writers thought we should have a definition for right? Yeah. I mean I've seen this on TV shows and in movies and stuff, So Adding this in 2022 I'm skeptical about that.

Sups 6:19

Now that's the question, right. So, Hmm.

Tanner 6:21

Hmm.

Sups 6:22

I guess we'll have to hear two more

Andi 6:25

Okay. so new word number three. Is legit in one adjective definition and the arbil form.

Sups 6:34

Wow.

Tanner 6:35

So like how we think of it being used,

Andi 6:38

Yeah. So this one's tricky and it also kind of speaks to what words are. So the word legit as a clipping of legitimate mm-hmm. is quite old. But this adjective form that I'm going to read is the new form added. Okay. So it's the new word. So being exactly as intended or presented, not spurious or false, and also being an actual example of something specified

Sups 7:05

I feel like these definitions, right? It's just like some really a person a stick up, you know?

Andi 7:13

I mean, you have to define

Sups 7:14

mean, I mean, think about how we use legit in our conversations, right? I would've never ex defined it that way, right? mean, legit is legit. Like,

Andi 7:24

Like, but you can't, A dictionary can't do that

Sups 7:27

no, I know, I know. But what I meant is like, yeah, legit. I would say real like, you know, a hundred percent authentic.

Tanner 7:33

Yeah. well,

Sups 7:33

love these explanations But then 2022, I think this

Tanner 7:38

sport has

Sups 7:39

been around

Tanner 7:39

Yeah.

Andi 7:40

Yeah. So it's important to remember that some definitions of legit have been in the dictionary for a long time. It's this particular definition that is new. Yeah. So especially the adverb form, which would mean something like this quote I got a lot going on and I don't remember things very well and I forgot. I legit forgot.

Sups 7:59

Yes.

Tanner 7:59

Ah, so that clipping that would be, I legitimately forgot. Right. So cuz it's an adverb.

Andi 8:06

Yeah.

Tanner 8:06

so then the 100% real definition

Andi 8:09

that's an adjective definition. So that would be, so I double checked the email address, which looked legit, and I called the guy and he seemed legit.

Tanner 8:16

Yeah.

Andi 8:16

Yeah. Where something like Nolan, a retired thief is 50 ish and legit now owner of successful shopping mall restaurant. as in he owns a legit business.

Tanner 8:26

seems like the older. meaning older.

Sups 8:28

Yeah. I would never use legit in that

Andi 8:32

yeah. Yeah. I liked including this one because it kinda speaks to how. Dictionaries work and how language works and how words don't stay the same and they can take on new and multiple meanings and I consider them new words. Right. But I don't know. Some people might argue,

Sups 8:47

I mean in this sense, like the way we understand legit now, it's still relatively new. I think it's the usage has gone up, I think in the past few years. legit is part of the daily vocab,

Tanner 9:01

And I also think it's weird when you talk about like abbreviations or clippings of words. Like is it limo? Its own entry and limousine its own entry. You know, like legit is in there next to legitimate and legitimately and they have different meanings. That's interesting. Yeah. So then you have to have such a big dictionary to include all these slang terms and abbreviations. Right,

Andi 9:22

exactly. I mean, that's the point, yeah. Of it. Yeah. So this is this case where legit has been an entry in the Miriam Webster dictionary for quite a long time. But these

Sups 9:32

day. right,

Andi 9:33

new.

Tanner 9:33

Wow. A hundred percent. Hmm. That's so interesting. That's weird to think about.

Sups 9:37

Yeah. I mean, it's the usage, right? I mean, like, legit, is more of a slang use, right? But now legit, has got legitimacy. Yeah,

Tanner 9:46

it's a legit,

Andi 9:46

word

Tanner 9:47

and a legit dictionary.

Andi 9:48

Yeah.

Sups 9:49

Yeah.

Andi 9:49

All right, one more. New. One word number. Pumpkin spice in the noun and the

Sups 9:58

compound. Okay,

Andi 9:59

so if you don't know, pumpkin spice is a mixture of usually cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and often all spice that is commonly used in pumpkin pie

Tanner 10:08

pie. And now lattes,

Andi 10:09

That's the official definition. In Miriam Webster's

Tanner 10:12

60, right. pumpkin is not an ingredient in pumpkin spice. It is used to make pumpkin things

Sups 10:17

Yes.

Tanner 10:17

I doubt that it was added in

Sups 10:19

Yeah. I know, right?

Tanner 10:20

Pumpkin spice lattes have been around for a while, and even before that, pumpkin spice was a

Sups 10:26

Yes.

Andi 10:27

Yeah. The first written usage they had was in 1931.

Sups 10:30

Yeah, sure. And it took them like out 2022 for them to add

Tanner 10:35

it. Right.

Sups 10:36

I mean,

Tanner 10:37

I

Andi 10:37

I really

Tanner 10:38

doubt that. I

Sups 10:40

Hmm.

Andi 10:41

So to use it in a sentence.

Tanner 10:42

Yeah.

Andi 10:43

it's that time of year again. decorations, faun, the lampposts and store windows. The smell of pumpkin spice lattes, pervades the air and the chill of winter has settled

Sups 10:53

Okay. But pumpkin spice in 2020. I don't know of all the four words that I've heard so far. Yeah. Hmm.

Andi 11:00

I think soup as soups has decided, he's like,

Sups 11:03

but I think, but I think that might be the trick that, you know, this is such a common word that you'd assume, Yeah. Maybe in 2021 or earlier.

Tanner 11:12

Such common ingredients. Yeah. I cannot believe this is 2022

Andi 11:16

Well,

Tanner 11:16

I mean,

Andi 11:17

that's not really relevant

Tanner 11:18

Yeah, no, I mean it's,

Andi 11:20

So those were all four words added to the Miriam Webster dictionary in 2022, except one.

Tanner 11:27

Excellent. Before we decide which of them you're lying about, could you please repeat the four words?

Andi 11:34

Yep. So word number. Don chorus word number two, larp word number three, legit. And word number four, pumpkin spice. One of those was not added 2022.

Tanner 11:59

which one do you think isn't legit?

Sups 12:02

My heart says pumpkin spice. Yeah. Um, But my mind says Don Chorus. Oh,

Tanner 12:08

wow. I'm just blown away because I have no inclination of when Dawn Chorus was added, so I'm just gonna believe that it's 2022. because of the pandemic? pandemic?

Sups 12:19

Yeah,

Tanner 12:19

Cause interesting

Sups 12:21

But again, also like larp, at the risk of sounding really stupid and foolish. LAR is the one I'm relatively confident about. That must be 2022. Legit. Another one that I have doubts on. Mm-hmm. But I think the trick is Don Chorus.

Tanner 12:37

I could have believed that all four of these were added before 2022, right? So picking three of them that were and one that wasn't is tough, you know, challenging.

Sups 12:48

Oh. The other thing that could be is that legit was never added

Tanner 12:52

very

Sups 12:53

So I'm gonna put my bet on Don Chorus.

Tanner 12:57

Okay. I think it is legit. And it's not in the dictionary yet.

Sups 13:03

Okay.

Andi 13:03

All right. so all of them are in the Webster's Dictionary, but you're right, it's legit. Has been. For the longest in this definition it has been. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. legit has been used in the short form to mean like legal since 1907 and in the ARB form. The first was in 1998. But then these other words that I found, they actually were older, but they were added later. wow. So, yeah, legit. I actually couldn't find exactly when it was used, but there was one article that said in 2010, it was not yet in the dictionary. Under this definition. Right. And then by 2018 it was, so somewhere in between 2010 and 2018, it was added well, in the definition that I gave you. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, Don Chorus was actually the oldest word on here,

Sups 13:51

Mm-hmm.

Andi 13:52

by first usage. But it was only

Sups 13:55

in 20. Oh, okay. No, makes sense. Yeah. And I think what you just mentioned, give the explanation about legit. And if you think about it between 2010 and 2018 when the usage in the form that we know sort of exploded, right. With the internet and social

Andi 14:10

media Yeah, yeah. but yeah. Isn't that weird?

Tanner 14:13

that's so weird.

Andi 14:14

it's was a very strange collection of words. Yeah,

Tanner 14:18

That's so interesting. With the resurgence of really old ones

Andi 14:22

Yeah.

Sups 14:22

All right. What I should have known,

Tanner 14:25

I should have known.

Andi 14:26

Thanks for listening to this episode of The Should of Known podcast. We'll be continuing our new theme for the rest of this new month, so be on, look up for that. And as always, thanks for listening.

Tanner 14:38

Oh right.