January 4, 2026 • 19 mins
It’s the 50th anniversary of the annual BANISHED words list, and Amy and T.J. go over the top 10 words and phrases you can no longer say in 2026. They also go through some of the words that just won’t stay banished, because “at the end of the day” it’s “awesome” and a total “game changer.”
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey there, folks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It is Sunday, January fourth, and we certainly hope you
left a certain number of words.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Back in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, we have an annual list of banished words that
you should not be using this year.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and Tday.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We got ten on the list, right off the bad
I agree with seventy eighty percent of the list, right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The same and thankfully Same is not on the list,
but maybe it should be because I've annoyed myself by
saying that.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
But yes, I agree with this list.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It made me laugh, and I have to admit I
did not know this was a thing. There was a
banished words words list, and this is the fiftieth annual list.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, we've been waiting for a big year to do that,
so once they got to the fiftieth, we thought this
was a good time. But no, give them credit for this,
and there is value and it is interesting to see
how words kind of evolve over time. But this is
out of Lake Superior State University up in of course,
uh Michigan. But they've been doing this for fifty years now.
(01:17):
They actually take submissions, they actually get public input in
this year, they got thousands from all over the world
as before, so they didn't just pluck these out and
make them up themselves. A lot of these and I'm
curious the listeners will agree with a lot of these said,
because don't you go down the list and go hell yeah,
please y'all stop saying that.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Exactly yes, and like, this is a list that basically
are words that are either misused or are useless or
maybe just annoying.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Correct, That's that's how it makes the list.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Okay, Another one for you here to tease Robes, is
of the list, are there any that you would say,
you know what that one can stay?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh wow, more than one.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I would say that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I say that doesn't mean we should keep it, That's
what I say.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
No, no, no, no, not based on your usage.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I think I can only think of one that I
feel like is okay to say, okay, so only one?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Anyone?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You not to keep? Only one because it doesn't annoy me. So,
but we will get into that.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Only one. It's the most boring one on the list. Probably.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Let's start at the bottom. And this is one that
took us a second that what are they actually talking
about here? But we'll go with number ten LEAs on
their list on the words that should be banished reach out.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yes, So I think the concept is it just means
you don't really care whether or not you ever talk
to that person again.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So it's a dismissive way to leave someone.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Like, yeah, you should reach out instead of saying here's
my number, or if would you want to text me
or email me and actually make a real connection with
a real way to actually communicate afterwards?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
If you just say reach out, it's so generic.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Do you hear it that often?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, now that you describe it is pretty vague and
it seems whip it. Yeah, like I really don't care
to hear from you ever that maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It actually means the opposite of what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You should reach out TOOM, to your assistant, to your
mom when wow.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
How there's a lot of questions, okay, follow reach out
And so that's why people want it vanished.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It should be banished because it's rude. Basically, it's kind
of rude. The next one here isn't this this will
never go away? Haven't people been saying this forever? Number
nine on the list.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
My bad, Yeah, I've been saying that for as long
as I can remember, But everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Says that, it seems, and I guess it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Feels like it's a fun way to say I was
wrong or I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So maybe that's why it's just too again, flip it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Instead of saying I'm sorry or you know, my apology
is saying my bad is definitely flippant.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So rude. Yeah, I guess we're getting to the heart
of this.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Rude.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What's another way? Okay, how about this? We'll give alternatives
along the way. Instead of saying reach out, you could say.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Here's my number, I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Nice, okay, instead of saying my bad.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
What could one say I'm so sorry?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh that was easy. We'll keep wording up the list.
That was number ten, number nine, let's get up to
number eight. I hear this quite often, and now that
I read some of what they're saying about it, it
makes sense that it's annoying.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Because you're turning a noun into a verb.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yes, people don't like that.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So hey, I gifted you this, Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Gifted is on the list.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Gifted as a verb is annoying as all get out,
And I guess that makes sense this was gifted to
me by I've.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Never thought about it, but yes, because it's I guess
what they're saying grammatically technically incorrect. You can't just turn
a noun into a verb. Yes, and when people do it,
it's annoying. My mom used to get on and I
don't even know the origins of this. My mom was
an English teacher. She would get really upset. And there's
no way this is ever going away. When people say
you disrespected me, she's like respect and disrespect like disrespected me.
(05:21):
It's not a verb, but everyone uses that one as
a verb, so that would always annoy her.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well's the other one that really annoys him. Nauseous and nauseating.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, I hope she's not listening because she's getting pissed
just hearing when people are getting She'll.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now know about this list and will start putting in
her her two cents and she has quite a few.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay, So hey, give me an example of the en robe.
Besides saying this was gifted to me, This is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
An easy one.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I guess this was given to me.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Period point play.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Keep going up the list here we have made it now.
It's in nine eight seven number seven on the list.
This is my one.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Same, okay, this is my one.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
We might have the same feeling because look, it's a
positive word. I understand that. So the word is perfect.
Let's go ahead and say what it is. It's perfect.
And I do fully acknowledge I say this a lot.
So if you said, hey, lunch is set four twelve,
I would say perfect, and that's it would just be like,
couldn't have you know, had it happen any better? Is
(06:21):
it too aspirational or too annoying, or they're too untrue?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
They're taking a little literally here.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I think anytime I've used the word perfect, it was
it was not It was figurative in some way. It
was fantasy in some way. When you say perfect, this
means that's ideal for me. That's I mean you look
at someone and say, oh you look perfect, your ideal.
Like it doesn't mean no imperfect no imperfections. So yeah,
that was the one I didn't have much of an
issue with.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I love that we had the same one.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh my goodness, here you go, so making it up
the list number six. I guess when I do hear it,
this does maybe it's because who ends up saying it
I don't know those gen z.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, full stop. It's even the way I just said
that made it extra annoying, just instead of saying stop
full stop. It feels like something you would see on
social media when someone's performing to try and you know,
end an argument.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They're compared it to it's like saying period point blank
about it, like you're just putting something. The one they
use is period. They just period. Then people used to
say that for a while. Do they still?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I think I have recently.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I'd say, you know, instead of mic drop or whatever,
you would just say period.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay, this is a more difficult one for you. Then
what can people say instead of full stop?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Please stop?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
No, that's not how it works.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Full stop check yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh this is going great. Lake Superior State University is listening.
We're giving you some new goals for next year.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You need to stop.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But the way it's used full stop is to like
to put emphasis on something dith is I'm going to
go here and then I'm going to graduate, and then
we're going to this party and then we're going to
hit out here fullstop. That's how it was used. You're
using it literally like put pumping the brakes on the
Bronco right full Oh, let's go up the number five.
(08:19):
This is another case is this is a made up word?
How does this work? Incentivized?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I honestly didn't even recognize that incentivize was again taking
a nown an incentive and turning it into a verb,
even though it actually isn't one. I have said this
word plenty we get incentivized. What's the incentive that would
be the correct way to put it instead of how
could you incentivize me?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I hear that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That one is why we hear all the time. The
next one on the list, number four. As we make
our way up this one, we actually just got off
the phone with Sabine asking about I don't hear this one,
but she says they do.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh so, and because there are plenty of ways to
use it literally and figuratively, And the way that Sabine
was talking about it was differently than even how I
would use it massive. So the argument is it's way overused,
and often incorrectly. The words massive overuse has secured its
(09:22):
place on this year's list is how they put it.
But I'll bomb but I would say something was massive
because it actually was huge.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But maybe it wasn't that big.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I do tend to exaggerate, or even some might say
over exaggerate.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But Sabine's use was I've heard the kids say this
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh I this is not one I've picked up. They
just talk about something is important, this is going to
be a big deal. That's how she just said it.
This is not one, So I don't have a beef
with it because I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, she was like that party's going to be massive,
not that there's going to be a lot of people there,
but that it's a big deal to be at the park.
And I could see how that could get confusing, because
if a kid told me a party was going to
be massive, I'd think probably not going to go because
we're thinking at least three hundred people. Yeah, that's not
what they meant. That's kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The next one up to number two and number one here,
these will be obvious, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Or was three three two? It was massive?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, and that massive was four so three two one.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Ah, I didn't go out. I took number one off
my screen. It was it wasn't even being considered here.
But obviously, yes, three two one will be I think
fairly obvious. I think number three here out of the
entire list, is the one I might hear most often.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Cooked. Everything cooked. If you get in a little trouble,
I'm cooked.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
My brain is cooked.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
The security lines long, don't know if I'll make my flight, Man,
I might be cooked. That's how it's used non stop,
because I do hear this from Sabina.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yes, yes, they say that parents and guardians led the
charge on this one. So in terms of who wrote
in to say please, this is my word that needs
to be banned, a lot of grown ups were really
sick of hearing that from kids. I haven't heard that
as much. It's totally an age thing, a thing that's funny.
So I had not yeah wow, only from like Sabine's age.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's jen a wawa awful. She's walking on the street.
She forgot her umbrella. Oh see some raine clouds. I
might be cooked.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's constantly every little thing if I'm in.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Trouble, might be cooked.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I need to pay more attention. I have not heard
her say that that's hilarious annoying.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Number two took us a while. I remember when it
was big in the headlines and whatnot. I didn't necessarily
get it, then don't get it. Now it's annoying to people.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It is annoying demure because of the phrase very demure,
very mindful. Yes, it's just annoying. So now it's said
a lot more than it should be very demure, very demure.
I mean I've only heard it said in just like laughing,
making fun of the whole thing that people were saying.
But yeah, if you have somebody who's saying that a lot,
(12:10):
that could get super annoying.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
All right, folks, we're up to number one on the list,
the number one words that most people want banished for
twenty twenty six. We're going to tell you right after
the break. Frankly, you already know what it is, and
it won't take you long to figure it out, but
we're going to use this as a tease anyway. Also,
we'll explain why there's a reason you might have heard
(12:33):
some of these words and thought, oh, surely that was
going to go away, that was going to go away. Well,
there's a reason that some words just won't die. We'll
give you some of those examples there. All right, we
(12:54):
continue here on Amy and TJ. After a terrible tease
to think that I teased what the number one the
most annoying word, essentially is that should be banished for
twenty twenty six. This was an obvious one, was it not.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It certainly was six seven?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, And because you even have to say it a
certain way when you say it makes it even more annoying.
So yes, a lot of people had some fun with it,
saying it's time six seven should be eighty six. Yes,
I think that is a consensus vibe just about everybody
as the most annoying word of twenty twenty five, so
no one should be saying it in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
The last several times you've heard it, has it been
from an adult or someone under twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I've actually heard it more from adults, laughing about the
fact that they now know what it means, because they
only found out when it made Word of the Year,
and then it all made more sense to them, and
now they're trying to own it, which means it's totally
passe and completely uncool to say done now, so.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It should be done.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It should be cooked absolutely out of here. This was
interesting to me. They've been, like we said, they've been
doing this for fifty years. Some words, right, you put
it on there, it's supposed to be banished, you would think, okay,
that's probably done, or a word gets its run. But
there are several words they have given us over the
years here that have been on the list more than once.
(14:18):
One of them has been on the list three times
now romes. I'm looking and I see at least one
of them had a comeback, and the gap was about
thirty something years.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Most of them were fairly close to each other with
the number five on the list is a is a
hilarious one that you would normally think about.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yep, it reminded me of another one that probably has
made the list before too.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
But we can get into this. So these are I
love how they call these repeat.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Offenders words that refused to stay banished.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Number five.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Should we start with like we did the last Okay,
hot water heater and you might think, well, what's wrong
with that?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So think about it a little longer. We'll give you
one more second here.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Hot hot water heater.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Why would there be a problem with that?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Just needs to be a water heater because if it's
hot water, it doesn't need to be heated.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So it makes zero sense.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So that was a banished word in nineteen eighty two,
and then somehow it made a resurgence and it came
back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So it made the list twice.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Someone made the or a point or asked the question,
since when does hot water.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Need to be heated?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I always think of that as an ATM machine, because
I have done that before. ATM stands for automated teller machine.
What's still so ATM machine is hilarious because you're basically
saying machine machine.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, that's like RBIs in baseball runs batted in. But
we still a lot of people say RBIs. Yes, I'm
not mad at you for it.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm looking for an ATM machine. I am that.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I immediately was like, oh, I might not have said
hot water heater, but maybe I have.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What about cash machine? I'm still on.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
The cash machine?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, you ever say that a cash machine?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Okay, ATM machine please? Okay? Number four on the list.
This is funny.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So this made its debut as a banished word in
two thousand and nine and then came back again last
year in twenty twenty five game changer.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Have you heard that a lot this year or last year.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I don't know if that is that's a game changer.
It's gonna be a game changer.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I watch.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I want a lot of watch a lot of sports,
so maybe. But yeah, that one doesn't bother me so much.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They said nothing is a game changer, if everything is
a game changer, the point being it's overused all the time,
like it's not really a game changer, but we just
like to say it is because well, yes, so many
of us like to exaggerate.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Number three is one.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I guess we just pick and choose when we get
annoyed by it because we hear it all the time. Awesome, awesome, Okay,
it depends on who says it, how they say it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Awes and they say it well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Eighty four and then in two thousand and seven, so
a pretty big gap between those two years. It annoyed
us all. Number two of it was okay, every ooh.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Heard this one coming out of my mouth, and it's
certainly been said a lot in this house, and this
is the one that made it for three years in
nineteen ninety nine, in twenty twenty two, and then again
in twenty twenty four, because it seems like it just
won't go away at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Stop, why does that want annoy you so much?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's just filler. That means nothing. It means it's just
filler for emphasis.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
At the end of the day. We all see things differently.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, so they say that that phrase has the unique
distinction of triple banishment. So yes, many people share your
disdain for that phrase. And number one, this is actually
a word that I know as a news anchor.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I think I've said this to.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You when I when it comes out of my mouth
or out of like go anchor's mouth, I know that
the person has nothing to say because the word is hilarious.
Absolutely nineteen ninety six and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
It's just a default.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
There's no actual reaction when you just say absolutely, I.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Got nothing, or I wasn't listening to you.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I don't know what to say. I have no way
to further the conversation, so I'm just going to say absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Folks, don't don't just break the bad hapbits, Okay, I should.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I wouldn't say these are overly annoying necessarily to six
y seven. Yes is, but it's interesting, and they make
a point. Look, it just it does, it helps us
learn understand I think it's just fascinating. It's part of
our education and just language evolving, yeah, all over the place.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So I do think it's cool and I love that
you pointed it out to me because I had never
seen this list be for so very happy to at
least bring it to our listeners here on their fiftieth anniversary.
So thank you to Lake Superior State University for that
very cool banished words list.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, always appreciate to you spending a little time here
with us. For my dear Amy Rollbock, I am TJ.
Hey there, folks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It is Sunday, January fourth, and we certainly hope you
left a certain number of words.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Back in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, we have an annual list of banished words that
you should not be using this year.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and Tday.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We got ten on the list, right off the bad
I agree with seventy eighty percent of the list, right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The same and thankfully Same is not on the list,
but maybe it should be because I've annoyed myself by
saying that.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
But yes, I agree with this list.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It made me laugh, and I have to admit I
did not know this was a thing. There was a
banished words words list, and this is the fiftieth annual list.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, we've been waiting for a big year to do that,
so once they got to the fiftieth, we thought this
was a good time. But no, give them credit for this,
and there is value and it is interesting to see
how words kind of evolve over time. But this is
out of Lake Superior State University up in of course,
uh Michigan. But they've been doing this for fifty years now.
(01:17):
They actually take submissions, they actually get public input in
this year, they got thousands from all over the world
as before, so they didn't just pluck these out and
make them up themselves. A lot of these and I'm
curious the listeners will agree with a lot of these said,
because don't you go down the list and go hell yeah,
please y'all stop saying that.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Exactly yes, and like, this is a list that basically
are words that are either misused or are useless or
maybe just annoying.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Correct, That's that's how it makes the list.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Okay, Another one for you here to tease Robes, is
of the list, are there any that you would say,
you know what that one can stay?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh wow, more than one.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I would say that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I say that doesn't mean we should keep it, That's
what I say.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
No, no, no, no, not based on your usage.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I think I can only think of one that I
feel like is okay to say, okay, so only one?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Anyone?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You not to keep? Only one because it doesn't annoy me. So,
but we will get into that.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Only one. It's the most boring one on the list. Probably.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Let's start at the bottom. And this is one that
took us a second that what are they actually talking
about here? But we'll go with number ten LEAs on
their list on the words that should be banished reach out.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yes, So I think the concept is it just means
you don't really care whether or not you ever talk
to that person again.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So it's a dismissive way to leave someone.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Like, yeah, you should reach out instead of saying here's
my number, or if would you want to text me
or email me and actually make a real connection with
a real way to actually communicate afterwards?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
If you just say reach out, it's so generic.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Do you hear it that often?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, now that you describe it is pretty vague and
it seems whip it. Yeah, like I really don't care
to hear from you ever that maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It actually means the opposite of what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You should reach out TOOM, to your assistant, to your
mom when wow.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
How there's a lot of questions, okay, follow reach out
And so that's why people want it vanished.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It should be banished because it's rude. Basically, it's kind
of rude. The next one here isn't this this will
never go away? Haven't people been saying this forever? Number
nine on the list.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
My bad, Yeah, I've been saying that for as long
as I can remember, But everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Says that, it seems, and I guess it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Feels like it's a fun way to say I was
wrong or I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So maybe that's why it's just too again, flip it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Instead of saying I'm sorry or you know, my apology
is saying my bad is definitely flippant.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So rude. Yeah, I guess we're getting to the heart
of this.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Rude.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What's another way? Okay, how about this? We'll give alternatives
along the way. Instead of saying reach out, you could say.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Here's my number, I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Nice, okay, instead of saying my bad.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
What could one say I'm so sorry?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh that was easy. We'll keep wording up the list.
That was number ten, number nine, let's get up to
number eight. I hear this quite often, and now that
I read some of what they're saying about it, it
makes sense that it's annoying.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Because you're turning a noun into a verb.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yes, people don't like that.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So hey, I gifted you this, Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Gifted is on the list.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Gifted as a verb is annoying as all get out,
And I guess that makes sense this was gifted to
me by I've.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Never thought about it, but yes, because it's I guess
what they're saying grammatically technically incorrect. You can't just turn
a noun into a verb. Yes, and when people do it,
it's annoying. My mom used to get on and I
don't even know the origins of this. My mom was
an English teacher. She would get really upset. And there's
no way this is ever going away. When people say
you disrespected me, she's like respect and disrespect like disrespected me.
(05:21):
It's not a verb, but everyone uses that one as
a verb, so that would always annoy her.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well's the other one that really annoys him. Nauseous and nauseating.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, I hope she's not listening because she's getting pissed
just hearing when people are getting She'll.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now know about this list and will start putting in
her her two cents and she has quite a few.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay, So hey, give me an example of the en robe.
Besides saying this was gifted to me, This is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
An easy one.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I guess this was given to me.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Period point play.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Keep going up the list here we have made it now.
It's in nine eight seven number seven on the list.
This is my one.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Same, okay, this is my one.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
We might have the same feeling because look, it's a
positive word. I understand that. So the word is perfect.
Let's go ahead and say what it is. It's perfect.
And I do fully acknowledge I say this a lot.
So if you said, hey, lunch is set four twelve,
I would say perfect, and that's it would just be like,
couldn't have you know, had it happen any better? Is
(06:21):
it too aspirational or too annoying, or they're too untrue?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
They're taking a little literally here.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I think anytime I've used the word perfect, it was
it was not It was figurative in some way. It
was fantasy in some way. When you say perfect, this
means that's ideal for me. That's I mean you look
at someone and say, oh you look perfect, your ideal.
Like it doesn't mean no imperfect no imperfections. So yeah,
that was the one I didn't have much of an
issue with.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I love that we had the same one.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh my goodness, here you go, so making it up
the list number six. I guess when I do hear it,
this does maybe it's because who ends up saying it
I don't know those gen z.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yes, full stop. It's even the way I just said
that made it extra annoying, just instead of saying stop
full stop. It feels like something you would see on
social media when someone's performing to try and you know,
end an argument.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They're compared it to it's like saying period point blank
about it, like you're just putting something. The one they
use is period. They just period. Then people used to
say that for a while. Do they still?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I think I have recently.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I'd say, you know, instead of mic drop or whatever,
you would just say period.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Okay, this is a more difficult one for you. Then
what can people say instead of full stop?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Please stop?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
No, that's not how it works.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Full stop check yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh this is going great. Lake Superior State University is listening.
We're giving you some new goals for next year.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You need to stop.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But the way it's used full stop is to like
to put emphasis on something dith is I'm going to
go here and then I'm going to graduate, and then
we're going to this party and then we're going to
hit out here fullstop. That's how it was used. You're
using it literally like put pumping the brakes on the
Bronco right full Oh, let's go up the number five.
(08:19):
This is another case is this is a made up word?
How does this work? Incentivized?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I honestly didn't even recognize that incentivize was again taking
a nown an incentive and turning it into a verb,
even though it actually isn't one. I have said this
word plenty we get incentivized. What's the incentive that would
be the correct way to put it instead of how
could you incentivize me?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I hear that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That one is why we hear all the time. The
next one on the list, number four. As we make
our way up this one, we actually just got off
the phone with Sabine asking about I don't hear this one,
but she says they do.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh so, and because there are plenty of ways to
use it literally and figuratively, And the way that Sabine
was talking about it was differently than even how I
would use it massive. So the argument is it's way overused,
and often incorrectly. The words massive overuse has secured its
(09:22):
place on this year's list is how they put it.
But I'll bomb but I would say something was massive
because it actually was huge.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But maybe it wasn't that big.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I do tend to exaggerate, or even some might say
over exaggerate.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But Sabine's use was I've heard the kids say this
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh I this is not one I've picked up. They
just talk about something is important, this is going to
be a big deal. That's how she just said it.
This is not one, So I don't have a beef
with it because I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, she was like that party's going to be massive,
not that there's going to be a lot of people there,
but that it's a big deal to be at the park.
And I could see how that could get confusing, because
if a kid told me a party was going to
be massive, I'd think probably not going to go because
we're thinking at least three hundred people. Yeah, that's not
what they meant. That's kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The next one up to number two and number one here,
these will be obvious, don't you think?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Or was three three two? It was massive?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, and that massive was four so three two one.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Ah, I didn't go out. I took number one off
my screen. It was it wasn't even being considered here.
But obviously, yes, three two one will be I think
fairly obvious. I think number three here out of the
entire list, is the one I might hear most often.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Cooked. Everything cooked. If you get in a little trouble,
I'm cooked.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
My brain is cooked.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
The security lines long, don't know if I'll make my flight, Man,
I might be cooked. That's how it's used non stop,
because I do hear this from Sabina.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yes, yes, they say that parents and guardians led the
charge on this one. So in terms of who wrote
in to say please, this is my word that needs
to be banned, a lot of grown ups were really
sick of hearing that from kids. I haven't heard that
as much. It's totally an age thing, a thing that's funny.
So I had not yeah wow, only from like Sabine's age.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That's jen a wawa awful. She's walking on the street.
She forgot her umbrella. Oh see some raine clouds. I
might be cooked.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's constantly every little thing if I'm in.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Trouble, might be cooked.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I need to pay more attention. I have not heard
her say that that's hilarious annoying.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Number two took us a while. I remember when it
was big in the headlines and whatnot. I didn't necessarily
get it, then don't get it. Now it's annoying to people.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It is annoying demure because of the phrase very demure,
very mindful. Yes, it's just annoying. So now it's said
a lot more than it should be very demure, very demure.
I mean I've only heard it said in just like laughing,
making fun of the whole thing that people were saying.
But yeah, if you have somebody who's saying that a lot,
(12:10):
that could get super annoying.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
All right, folks, we're up to number one on the list,
the number one words that most people want banished for
twenty twenty six. We're going to tell you right after
the break. Frankly, you already know what it is, and
it won't take you long to figure it out, but
we're going to use this as a tease anyway. Also,
we'll explain why there's a reason you might have heard
(12:33):
some of these words and thought, oh, surely that was
going to go away, that was going to go away. Well,
there's a reason that some words just won't die. We'll
give you some of those examples there. All right, we
(12:54):
continue here on Amy and TJ. After a terrible tease
to think that I teased what the number one the
most annoying word, essentially is that should be banished for
twenty twenty six. This was an obvious one, was it not.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It certainly was six seven?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, And because you even have to say it a
certain way when you say it makes it even more annoying.
So yes, a lot of people had some fun with it,
saying it's time six seven should be eighty six. Yes,
I think that is a consensus vibe just about everybody
as the most annoying word of twenty twenty five, so
no one should be saying it in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
The last several times you've heard it, has it been
from an adult or someone under twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I've actually heard it more from adults, laughing about the
fact that they now know what it means, because they
only found out when it made Word of the Year,
and then it all made more sense to them, and
now they're trying to own it, which means it's totally
passe and completely uncool to say done now, so.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It should be done.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It should be cooked absolutely out of here. This was
interesting to me. They've been, like we said, they've been
doing this for fifty years. Some words, right, you put
it on there, it's supposed to be banished, you would think, okay,
that's probably done, or a word gets its run. But
there are several words they have given us over the
years here that have been on the list more than once.
(14:18):
One of them has been on the list three times
now romes. I'm looking and I see at least one
of them had a comeback, and the gap was about
thirty something years.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Most of them were fairly close to each other with
the number five on the list is a is a
hilarious one that you would normally think about.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yep, it reminded me of another one that probably has
made the list before too.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
But we can get into this. So these are I
love how they call these repeat.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Offenders words that refused to stay banished.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Number five.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Should we start with like we did the last Okay,
hot water heater and you might think, well, what's wrong
with that?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So think about it a little longer. We'll give you
one more second here.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Hot hot water heater.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Why would there be a problem with that?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Just needs to be a water heater because if it's
hot water, it doesn't need to be heated.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
So it makes zero sense.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So that was a banished word in nineteen eighty two,
and then somehow it made a resurgence and it came
back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So it made the list twice.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Someone made the or a point or asked the question,
since when does hot water.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Need to be heated?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I always think of that as an ATM machine, because
I have done that before. ATM stands for automated teller machine.
What's still so ATM machine is hilarious because you're basically
saying machine machine.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, that's like RBIs in baseball runs batted in. But
we still a lot of people say RBIs. Yes, I'm
not mad at you for it.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm looking for an ATM machine. I am that.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I immediately was like, oh, I might not have said
hot water heater, but maybe I have.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What about cash machine? I'm still on.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
The cash machine?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, you ever say that a cash machine?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Okay, ATM machine please? Okay? Number four on the list.
This is funny.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So this made its debut as a banished word in
two thousand and nine and then came back again last
year in twenty twenty five game changer.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Have you heard that a lot this year or last year.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I don't know if that is that's a game changer.
It's gonna be a game changer.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I watch.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I want a lot of watch a lot of sports,
so maybe. But yeah, that one doesn't bother me so much.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They said nothing is a game changer, if everything is
a game changer, the point being it's overused all the time,
like it's not really a game changer, but we just
like to say it is because well, yes, so many
of us like to exaggerate.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Number three is one.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I guess we just pick and choose when we get
annoyed by it because we hear it all the time. Awesome, awesome, Okay,
it depends on who says it, how they say it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Awes and they say it well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Eighty four and then in two thousand and seven, so
a pretty big gap between those two years. It annoyed
us all. Number two of it was okay, every ooh.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Heard this one coming out of my mouth, and it's
certainly been said a lot in this house, and this
is the one that made it for three years in
nineteen ninety nine, in twenty twenty two, and then again
in twenty twenty four, because it seems like it just
won't go away at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Stop, why does that want annoy you so much?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's just filler. That means nothing. It means it's just
filler for emphasis.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
At the end of the day. We all see things differently.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, so they say that that phrase has the unique
distinction of triple banishment. So yes, many people share your
disdain for that phrase. And number one, this is actually
a word that I know as a news anchor.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I think I've said this to.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You when I when it comes out of my mouth
or out of like go anchor's mouth, I know that
the person has nothing to say because the word is hilarious.
Absolutely nineteen ninety six and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
It's just a default.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
There's no actual reaction when you just say absolutely, I.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Got nothing, or I wasn't listening to you.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I don't know what to say. I have no way
to further the conversation, so I'm just going to say absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Folks, don't don't just break the bad hapbits, Okay, I should.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I wouldn't say these are overly annoying necessarily to six
y seven. Yes is, but it's interesting, and they make
a point. Look, it just it does, it helps us
learn understand I think it's just fascinating. It's part of
our education and just language evolving, yeah, all over the place.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So I do think it's cool and I love that
you pointed it out to me because I had never
seen this list be for so very happy to at
least bring it to our listeners here on their fiftieth anniversary.
So thank you to Lake Superior State University for that
very cool banished words list.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, always appreciate to you spending a little time here
with us. For my dear Amy Rollbock, I am TJ.
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