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