Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

I think this marks the end of spooky season.

No.

I love how the word spooky sounds adorable.

It's like, oh, little spooky.

It's about like being scared, though.

Like, I recently talked to a linguist, and they were saying that the funniest words in the English language are either words with the letter K or the double O words like boob,

noob, but then also spooky. And I feel like if you're going to choose a word to explain

something scary, why would you go with spooky? Well, don't even get me started on Spoopee.

What's that?

That became a whole thing.

I think the meme of Spooey started because there was a packaging error at a Halloween store

that said Spoopee instead of spooky.

Wait, do people use the word spooopy?

Look, I'm gonna tell you straight up,

I fell into the meme trap of spoopy,

I thought it was funny, I used it for many years,

until people recently were like,

oh, it's so stupid to say spoopy.

I'm like, well, fuck you, you don't like to have fun. So there's a new word

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