📓 Gen Alpha's Viral 'Six-Seven' Named Word Of The Year

Dictionary.com has crowed 67, pronounced "six-seven", as its word of the year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Gamation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The word of the Year has been released the dictionary
dot COM's twenty twenty five Word of the Year.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Oh, I always like it when this happens. Can I
have a guess what it might be? Go on, now,
got no idea, that's my guess?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I mean, is that your guess? Nuh?

Speaker 4 (00:20):
What's what's a word that's been thrown around a lot lately?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Tell me the word of the year is six seven.
I know it's not a word, it's a number, but
these are the times we're living in and don't say
six that's the.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Worst you can do. I'm a little confused by six seven.
What is it?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's it's a bit like the old phrase I'm at
sixes and seven?

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Is it like a year na.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Which was confused? Yeah, And they've even got a little
hand gesture that goes with it.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Show me the hand, just and describe that.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Like you do that you go stand up. It's like this, like.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
You're juggling, so you've got your palms up and you're
moving on and the other.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, there's nothing to it.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's it's just it's indicative of how lame the generation
is that the word is a number and their hand
gesture is.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
This, and the fact that we're talking about where we're
ruining it a sentence, how was how was work today?
Six seven? Meaning you know there's neither here nor there.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
A lot of people saying they're just saying it to
upset the olds, which is nothing wrong about that. You
know I had a mohawk and an earring when I
was a kid to upset the olds.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
And so where does it come from?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Uh? You know there's a rapper called there's like there's
a few of them, Scriller. You know Scriller. There was
a song, Am I right? Scriller puts some scrill on
this is or six.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Baby shoot the pot the blue like the saying a round, bro,
we could smack our pull it cleaner my weight, rolling
off a hundred seven anywhere God even he's born whatever.
Love back to bat Man, Black Baby Shark. That's no,

(02:12):
you're the voice, isn't he screw lacks.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, that's skrill, Oh no, no, no, hang on, that's scrilla.
Scrill x gm y rye scrill x. That's scrill.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
That's the post to.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Baby shok popped the perk pot the Blue.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Like so much talk like that on the train, I
have arrested.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Win another war, Oh we got one.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Send them all to the front and then they can
be at sixes and sevens anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
That's don't say sixty seven. You can say at sixes
and seconds.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's that's old schoolingo from when you used to shoot
the craps. They'd shoot the craps and if you went,
you know, to brawl and dice shooting, you know, the casino.
And if you go six and seven that means you're
a risky person.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
If you throw that, get a seven on a die.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
No, there's like a I don't know, douts. I don't know.
It's just just the world is very confusing. The world
is confusing.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
People talk heaps, wick and proper and leave it at that.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
So you awear from the pedant to era. That's pedant era,
by the way,