MINI: The 2025 Word Of The Year Is...????

It's our favourite time of the year - the BIG words of 2025 are being recognised by all of our favourite dictionaries - but we are mad about this one from dictionary.com

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Britt.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
It is exciting to be here today because I've got
some big news.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Sit down. Okay, you've just had a baby, you're married.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Get ready for this even bigger than having poppy. Okay,
this is the dictionary dot Com Word of the Year
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I have I hate this time of year, and I
feel like it's come early, has it?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
This is like the lead up to Christmas?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
But what if a bigger word comes over the next
seven weeks? This is early to call word.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Of the year. Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Look, just for people listening right now, every dictionary out there,
they're very territorial. I wonder if they ever like bump
into each other on the street and have fights.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Is it not hang on before you unpack? That?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Is it not unusual that we have so many dictionaries?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Shouldn't we just have one? Well that is a whole
other story.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well, looking at last year twenty twenty four, dictionary dot com,
their word of the year was demure.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Great, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oxford, Like they've got to be top of the food
chain and of dictionaries.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Their word of the year was brain rott.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well, firstly, Oxford, that's two words.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I can't read. The next one by Macquarie.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I can go.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
And shittification excuse you, Brittany, Yeah, and certification. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Has anyone in this room, there's seven of us, has
anyone heard somebody use the word and certification?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Can you stop swearing, please, britt genuinely like, I've never
heard it. People like it's three o'clock. There's no need
for that. I've never used it. But Colins this is
more my type of word. Colin's Dictionary their word of
the Year twenty twenty four was brat. That's been underwhelming
a little bit. But are you ready for the word
twenty twenty five?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
It is? Get ready for it? It's six seven non.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
It absolutely can't be that's the number.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, yeah, maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Dictionary dot com they're like the youth, They're like the website.
Oxford's like the old fuddy duddy, like paper hardback. But
dictionary dot com they have announced six to seven as
a word of the year.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
And if you're not sure what it means, no one
knows what it means. I'm going to read this.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
I still don't quite understand what it is, but the
term captures a viral jen al for slang.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I feel so old even reading that.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
But it's baffled adults, and it's fueled TikTok trends and
reflected real world impact of internet meme culture.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Use it innocent and you're a TikTok. Oh, God, you
keep up.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
With the kids. Okay, Well, I feel like our video
editor is he knows how to is.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's maybe this or maybe that, usually paired with like
hand moving like motion.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
So would it be like, hey, how is the party
on the weekend? And you'd be like, I'm six seven.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think so that was pretty good, right, I think so?
Oh my god, are the kids listening right now? Agreeing
or not? I can't tell.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I think that's how you'd use it.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Sorry, I'm just jumping in here.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Is it like if you ask someone what something is
on a.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Scale of one to ten, it's kind of average, So
like six seven six, I cracked it.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I don't think that is Oh my gosh, Thank goodness,
Grace is here shine some light on this confusing word.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Of the year.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
So I'm going to ask you, hang on, I am
typing it in. Can you tell me an example of
how to use six seven. Sure, you mean the viral
slang terminology six seven. She's a ten, but he's a
six seven? So is that what it means.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
It's like, I don't get it. What about it? They're like, hey,
how is dinner? And You're like, it was six seven.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, that's why I said on the weekend, how's the party?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's six seven seven? We get it. We're young, we're hip,
we're down with the youth of this country.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh my guys, dude, I'm sorry if we cannot google
it and we cannot chat jip do it and ai
it and we still don't understand what it is. This
can't be the word of the year.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'll find a kid finished radio and I'll just be like, hello,
my six sevens and I'll see how they respond and
see if we're on the money or not.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
This is insane. I think we need to write to
who was it? Dictionary? Dome? I get it now, I
get it. It's like this break. I guess break is
a six. It's this chat is so six seven? Do
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
You brought it?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, well that's what I mean. It's like, fully six
seven hand motions all.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Right, well, tomorrow I'm going to be in nine ten
hand motions.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Right, Oh my god, I'm notoking. Let's wrap this up.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
You're making this sound so old.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Let's get out of here.