AEE 2563: Is Brainrot Taking Over the Dictionary?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Business, Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 2563. Is BrainRot taking over the dictionary?
0:08.3	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling
0:15.7	stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection,
0:23.1	not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon,
0:30.9	the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.
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0:52.0	What are the three most common words of 2025 according to the big dictionaries? Find out
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1:13.9	You pause too much, you hesitate, you know what you want to say, but only later, not in the moment when it matters.
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2:08.7	Lindsay, D.O-E word of the year is? The word of 2025.
2:15.5	Of 2025. Well, yeah, we've exited 2025 already, but I'm guessing it has something to do with AI and the junk that comes out of AI, maybe. That's a very good guess. And I don't know if you were aware of this, Lindsay. Maybe you out there were listeners. I hadn't really thought about how there's a different word of the year for each dictionary. Like a dictionary chooses the word of the year. So we are going to share with you the word of the year from three of the different major dictionaries.
2:36.5	Love it.
2:36.9	But they are all very related and they're all about that sort of AI and brain rot, really, which
2:44.6	interestingly was last year's word of the word of the year for I'm trying to remember,
2:49.2	maybe Oxford.
2:50.3	The word of the year was brain rot.
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