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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda. The Collins Dictionary has

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Speaker 1: added ten words to their dictionary, and when you look

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Speaker 1: at them, you think a year ago you wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: imagined why these words would be important. It's like I

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Speaker 1: still get shocked sometimes at how the world has spun

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Speaker 1: off this year. When I saw the Queen in a

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Speaker 1: mask for laying a wreath last week, she's wearing a mask,

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Speaker 1: and I go wow. And President Presidents elect Biden wearing

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Speaker 1: a mask, and occasionally go, how weird's that? When that happened?

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Speaker 1: When did it happen? And how strange that that's now

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Speaker 1: normal for this year and this time from last year.

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Speaker 1: We would never have imagined it in the same way

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Speaker 1: that we would never have imagined this time last year.

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Speaker 1: If you'd said in twenty twenty, Colin's word of the

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Speaker 1: year would be lockdown, we think, well, what's that about?

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Speaker 1: Why would the word lockdown be word of the year.

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Speaker 1: But as they say, it's a shared experience for billions

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Speaker 1: of people this year, and language reflects the world around us.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty has been dominated by the pandemic. So

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Speaker 1: all the new words here are pandemic words. How terrifying

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Speaker 1: we've known last year. These would be new. Words are

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Speaker 1: also included in the pandemic words BLM, the abbreviation for

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Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter coronavirus. None of us had heard of it,

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Speaker 1: unless you're an epidemiologists this time last year. COVID. We

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have known what COVID. No furlough a temporary laying

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Speaker 1: off of employees because his insufficient work to occupy them.

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Speaker 1: None of us would have used that in normal language,

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Speaker 1: would we. Key worker? This, as we know, is an

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Speaker 1: employee and number of professions who are essential to functioning,

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Speaker 1: for example, teachers, police officers, health work. I've heard that

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Speaker 1: word a lot around here, that Jones he is a

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Speaker 1: key worker. I have just heard that that's a different meaning.

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Speaker 1: Check the Urban dictionary. I've heard spelled another way a

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Speaker 1: key worker. Mexit is new. That was obviously for the

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Speaker 1: withdrawal of Meghan and Harry from the royal family duties.

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Speaker 1: Isolate is another word social distancing. TikToker appears this year.

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Speaker 1: A person who regularly shares or appears in TikTok videos.

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Speaker 1: This is one that I hadn't heard of before I

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Speaker 1: had to look it up. Muckbang, muckbang, m uk bang.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what muckbang is sounds? It sounds as

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Speaker 1: rude as all get out. What sounds as rude as

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Speaker 1: Mick Jagger in nineteen sixty eight. Muckbang is a video

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Speaker 1: or webcast in which a host, usually an attractive person,

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Speaker 1: eats a huge amount of food for the entertainment of viewers.

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Speaker 1: This started in South Korea ten years ago. Muckbang means

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Speaker 1: eating show, but now it's become a fetish and there

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Speaker 1: are huge websites for this where you tune in just

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Speaker 1: to watch. And usually it's young attractive girls eating huge

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Speaker 1: quantities of food or squishy little bits of food. It's

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Speaker 1: eating as entertainment, or as I like to call it,

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Speaker 1: Jonesy at the shops eating huge amounts of food, swilling

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Speaker 1: it down. You paid it very fighter in the picture.

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Speaker 1: So they have the new one for this year, being

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Speaker 1: a key worker and everything sure with Joins and Amanda