
132: WotY 2025, the Final Word (with Kelly Wright)
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We're talking to Dr Kelly Wright, friend of the show and data czar for the American Dialect Society. They run the biggest and most prestigious Word of the Year event, and she was there when the 2025 WotY votes came in. She's talking us through all the words we missed. Plus we get to some listener feedback.
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- Start: 0:00
- Intros: 0:41
- The ADS WotYs for 2025: 7:12
- Related or Not: 1:00:51
- Listener comments: 1:09:53
- The Reads: 1:20:28
- Outtakes: 1:27:01
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