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🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | NPR. |
0:11.8 | This is the end of Kid of Replanity, I'm Adrian Ma. |
0:14.1 | And I'm Wayland Wong. |
0:15.4 | So for this last week of 2022, we're replaying some of our favorite episodes from the year. |
0:20.9 | Which is hard because we had a lot of favorite episodes this year. |
0:24.6 | We've done so many episodes. |
0:26.8 | Yeah, like rough estimate, I think we did like, what, like a million? |
0:29.8 | That's that feels load to be honest. |
0:32.6 | Yes, it does. |
0:34.2 | But we did it, we narrowed it down. |
0:35.8 | So you are going to hear Adrian and Darian's picks later in the week. |
0:39.4 | But today, here is one of my favorites. |
0:41.9 | It's about how new words make it into the dictionary. |
0:44.5 | That is one of those things I've always wondered about. |
0:47.0 | Me too. |
0:48.0 | So I was really excited to do this episode. |
0:50.2 | Marion Webster added over 300 new words to the dictionary earlier this year. |
0:54.6 | And a bunch of these words were e-con vocab terms. |
0:58.0 | I have a big soft spot for it. I think it's because we talk about like filing cabinets |
1:02.2 | and note cards. |
1:03.2 | I like that stuff. |
1:04.3 | So after the break, we're going to peek behind the stacks and find out how words get in |
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