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It's An Omnishambles! Our Fave New Words To Be Added To The OED

The High Low

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

We discuss Extinction Rebellion, Meghan and Harry's African tour documentary for ITV and Deborah Orr, the brilliant journalist who sadly died this week. 


And it's our favourite time of year: that time when The OED adds its new words into the dictionary. 2019's additions include 'omnishambles', 'nomophobia' and 'simples'. We unpick the good, the bag and the ugly new entries.


The High Low is currently on tour! The next High Low Experience tour date is Monday 28th October in Manchester. For more info: https://www.fane.co.uk/our-shows/the-high-low-experience


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Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, for ITV https://www.itv.com/hub/harry-meghan-an-african-journey/2a7842a0001


The creator of 90s anxiety unpicks the appeal of his 5 most popular posts, for Man Repeller https://www.manrepeller.com/2019/10/90s-anxiety-instagram-nostalgia.html


The sadness of miscarriage can build up like soot, by Lucy Pavia for The Evening Standard https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/health/the-sadness-of-miscarriage-can-build-up-like-soot-baby-loss-awareness-week-a4259591.html


The essays of Rebecca Solnit http://rebeccasolnit.net/books/


Bernadine Evaristo on black female writers https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/19/bernadine-evaristo-what-a-time-to-be-a-black-british-womxn-writer


Deborah Orr https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/28/second-thoughts-rational-decisions-brexit-trump?__twitter_impression=true


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/26/nhs-health-service-britain


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/06/in-praise-of-lunchtime-drinking


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/inews.co.uk/opinion/columnists/sally-challen-appeal-coercive-control-95229%3famp


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/21/deborah-orr-obituary

Anita O’Day on Fresh Air https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fresh-air/id214089682?i=1000454020504



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0:00.0

Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly current affairs and pop culture pop cars brought to you by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Syles.

0:21.2

And thank you to Dublin, who were a wonderful audience on Sunday in our second show of the Highloat Experience Live.

0:28.6

We had a packet of tatos thrown at us like Nick has thrown at Mick Jagger on stage and you were all so wonderful when we had a semi-disaster of a fire alarm going off in the second half.

0:41.2

And a whole concert hall had to be evacuated into the car box for 20 minutes on a freezing cold Sunday night.

0:49.2

Thank you so much that so many people came back. And thank you to Irish friends Roisin & Gull and Simon George, who have introduced us to Tato Bistro crisps, which are I would say up there with the co-op Sultan Vinnego.

1:06.2

I think they taste identical, is that controversial? No, I think that Charlie if you had one yet? Not yet, no.

1:13.2

We've opened them for Charlie like. They're probably not public garden table.

1:16.2

Use a friendly thing to eat whilst we're away. No, I would think not. Last week at Pandora we were literally about to start recording and I picked up an apple.

1:25.2

And she said, what on earth do you think you're doing?

1:28.2

Literally right before we said right, we start the mics are on. But they are very very good salt and vinegar crisps for our Irish listeners.

1:36.2

Tato Bistro.

1:38.2

What are the price differences? Interesting. This show could very easily become a sort of crisps watchdog I think. Compare the market.

1:47.2

I would like to alert you to my tweet of the week Pandora, which comes from Elaine Hendrix.

1:55.2

Do you might remember as playing Meredith Blake in the 96 remake of the Parent Trapp with Lindsay Lohan?

2:03.2

Might remember being the opposite of what? Do you not remember her? She played the glamorous girl friend of Dennis Quaid.

2:09.2

I'd probably recognise her. So she, she's 26. She plays a 26 year old soon to be stepmother.

2:18.2

Oh, I do remember her. And the reason I know that number is because I wrote about it in my chapter.

2:23.2

I think I've been in my paperback about turning 30 because when I was having crisis about turning 30, Meredith Blake being 26 was something that very much haunted me.

2:33.2

So she tweeted today in response to the announcement that Dennis Quaid, who's 65, is engaged to Laura Savoy, who's 26.

2:44.2

Yeah, I saw that. She tweeted, watch out for those twins and then the twin emoji.

2:49.2

And then what I love even more, not only is she still hanging on to the fact that this was her kind of big golden role.

2:55.2

Her Twitter avatar, the woman's nearly 50, is a still of her playing Meredith Blake.

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