📓 2024's Word Of The Year Has Been Revealed!

It's been a 'brat' summer... 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. Collins Dictionary has revealed their word
of the year. Do you know what the last year's
word of the year was? Aim? Is that a word? Well? Well,
what what it is? The way they decipher all this
is they monitor twenty their twenty billion word database to

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find out what words are new and have evolved and
what's the most popular word of What about my words
but terrible? That's tez. Yeah, I've looked up here as
your picture next to it. So what this does is
reflects the ever evolving English language. I'm like tz, which
is great, that's not yours. I heard someone use it

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the other days because it's not your word. That is
my word? Is my word? That's copyright mean. Oh, it's
like just saying any shortening that Australians do is that
whenever you hear I'll say this to you. If I
hear other people using the word tez, I know it
came from me. I'm happy to give it to the
world though, for free. Well let's look at what the
Let's go straight to number one. Do you want to

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know what the word of the year is? Well, there
are some more. All right, let's go to the foreplay,
which isn't one of the words. New and notable words
for twenty twenty four era. Yep, thanks to in the
sense of a period of one's life or career. That's
a distinctive character. Thank you to T Swift. That's right.
A number of the new words include a growing movement
against mass tourism. So we had anti tourism. What about

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this word de lulu mean you know, if you've gone
d lulu deluded. I love that raw dogging, which is
taking a long hall flight with no devices or distractions.
Brain rot yapping just means to talk a lot. Super
majority romanticy. I've been into the romanticy this year. It's yeah,
my fairy smut please and looks maxing, which I think

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is just pimping your look. Really Okay, you ready for
the word of the year. Brat Brat, brat rat Yep.
The phrase Bratt's summer became one of the most talked
about phrases bratt and this is largely thanks to the
singer Charlie xc X. She had this massive song that's right. Well,

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she's got an album I think called Bratt. Yeah, and
so is that right? Ryan? Thank him? So she's got
an album called bratt and that has defined the girls
of the summer. So it's women who are sassy, confident, independent,
with a hedonistic attitude. And she has said head on

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a stick attitude, hedonistic think you said, or like a survivor,
you have the heads on a stick, out you go.
But also Charlie dream of it, the little to what
are you watching? Charlie x X herself has said that
Karmala Harris is brat and Krmla's has her own People

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have re posted that so brat, brat, summer bratt, girl,
confident or sassy, all that stuff that is the word
of the tears. Well, let me have a look here.
I'm just flicking through, flicking, flicking through nothing. You're uffling

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a piece of paper more than she's done for some time.
And no tears isn't mentioned