It's Friday, October 31st, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's The Gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

And though it was designated a couple days ago, I haven't talked about it.

But I feel the gist should, as it is a very words forward podcast.

It's the word of the year.

It's named by the American Dialect Society. Maybe you've heard it.

It was 6-7. Yeah, that meme thing. Six-seven. The American Dialect Society, they're just

looking to get attention. They're also making a point, right? The word of the year is more

politically inflected than the MacArthur Genius Grant over there at the American Dialect Society.

Their last few words of the year, raw dog in shittification.

We had Corey Doctor O, who invented that word talking about that.

The year before, 2022, Usy.

What's Usi?

It's the last four letters of pussy.

Okay, great.

Has that the word of the year?

Well, you could put it behind

another letter like bussy. What's bussy? It stands for boy pussy. Okay, I guess I'll take

your word of the year for it. You know how that's a good word of the year? Miriam Webster. You

know what? There's a dozen of these words of the year. They just go by the stats. Who's looking up what? There's a little bit of subjectivity to it. But when people are really interested in a word, this is where dictionaries come in. And this year, people were interested in, or last year, people were interested in polarization. That was the word of the year. I stand by that. If I were them, I would stand by that. Oxford, Oxford English Dictionary. They're also pretty good with Word of the Year. A couple years ago, Goblin Mode. Remember when Elon Musk said that? And everyone's like, what's Goblin Mode? Which is why you need a dictionary, which becomes the word of the year. The year after that, Riz. What's Riz? Short for charisma. Oh, thank you. You've added some knowledge, Mr. Dictionary,

Mr. Oxford English Dictionary. So I got to say, my son and I were talking about six, seven,

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