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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's been some ridiculous words of the year, Marny, but
none better than this.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Nick. Is it in the Oxford I'm not sure if
it is, but it certainly had its sense and purpose
and still gets about the place and especially bantered.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
By you, depending on what list you look at, Marni.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, nick Na.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
All right, So the Oxford word of the Year is one.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yes, it's been released for twenty twenty five. It's rage bait.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Rage bait is the worthy year.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
So it's online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or
outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or just plane offensive, typically
posted in order to increase traffic or engagement with a
particular web page or social media account. Yeah, rage bait
when you see someone put something up there and off

(00:53):
you go and it just starts. It's always a post
where someone just puts the picture of the popcorn. I'm
just here for the comments and look, honestly, that's the
worst thing. Social media is the place where people just
go off at each other because I don't know, they
just can. It's like there's no rules or regulation. It's
called rage bita.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, that's right, and Oxford wasn't the only place that
you could find the word of the year. There's been
plenty of list. Lorraine's in Hatton vale GeTe, Lorraine, how
are you going good?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Are you good?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Have you got a word of the year you'd like.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
To share with us? Oh? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Y two k that was a big That was a
big word of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I was bantered around everywhere, wasn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, nineteen ninety nine that would have been the.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Year because one was worried and computer systems and what
was going to happen when they just shut down all
everything shut down on the mark of midnight.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I remember, I remember we were having a party. It
was hedonistic because everyone was thinking, Oh, nothing's going to
exist after this. We'll just run around like were cave
men get up to all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Nothing happened. It was the biggest visit. Yeah you've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
We can put our clothes back on our people.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Were We were both actually in radio and it was
the biggest Like, everyone was worried the computer systems it
would all fall over because it had never clocked over
before like that, so no one knew what was going
to happen. This Y two came.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Ewan's on the lie did you have a word of
the year that you'd like to share. I don't think
mine's as funny as that w m D temper w
m D weapons of mass destruction.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Man that banded around for a little while, didn't it? Well,
the weapons of.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Mass Most of my relationships were weapons of mass destruction.
I thought, yeah, nickname w.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
He's the problem. There's usually a common denominator. I'm always
told it's me, so I'm like, oh what, I just.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah right, people call me the Lord of Destruction after
Lord of the Rings. I'm not sure the words like
dumpster fire, fake news, COVID.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Insurrection, what's insurrection?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
That was in that well, that was after the big
mass insurrection in the US, the.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Big mass weapons of it. This is all coming out
from the US, the different left lists.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
You got the Colins English Dictionary, you got the Cambridge Dictionary,
the Australian National Dictionary Center. Here's some of the words
of the year off that one, like stroll out, stroll out,
never voo voo zella. That was that? That was that
horn they played at the World Cup bar that was annoying.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
How about this though? Propound to announce or broadcast, so
instead of being an announcer, you were propounder.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Let's leave it there.