310. The Words of the Year (Part 1) with Amber & Paul

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🗓️ 18 November 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this series of three new episodes Amber, Paul and I talk about a list of the 10 Words of the Year which have been added to the Collins English Dictionary. We're going to explain the words and discuss the issues behind them and I'll also explain and clarify a lot of the language you're going to hear in our conversation. For a transcript of the introduction and vocabulary notes click here http://wp.me/p4IuUx-5es

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0:57.8	Hello everybody.
1:02.2	Welcome to another episode of Luke's English podcast I hope you're doing well I hope you're fine hope you're comfortable and I hope you're just having a nice day or nice night or nice evening or whatever it is you're doing.
1:15.0	Welcome to all of you to this episode of Luke's English podcast.
1:20.0	This introduction to this episode is being recorded today on the 18th of November on a Wednesday morning,
1:27.0	but the rest of this episode after the introduction, and in fact the other two episodes in this series were recorded a couple of weeks ago.
1:35.2	All right? This episode is all about the Collins Dictionary Words of the Year 2015.
1:41.6	What's that you might think?
1:44.0	Well, let me break it down.
1:45.0	First of all, who are Collins?
1:48.0	Well, Collins are a publisher of dictionaries,
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