Vocabulary Spotlight | 3 Recently Added Words to Webster's Dictionary

In this episode of the A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack look at three words which were added to Webster's Dictionary in 2023.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are stepping into the vocabulary spotlight and social. I have a list here of 24 new words that were recently added to Webster's Dictionary in 2023.00:00:23JackAnd I thought it would be kind of a fun be fun to kind of go through this list over the next several months and so maybe we'll do like 3 words per episode.00:00:36JackWord and the first word. I'm just gonna kind of test you and see if you know what the the meaning is beast mode.00:00:46XochitlOhh yeah, Beast mode is like.00:00:49XochitlOhh, I went beast mode on it. Like hulking out or like also doing like top of your game at something.00:00:59JackYeah. I I I see it a lot on like uh, because I.00:01:04XochitlGame forums.00:01:06JackYeah. Game forums. Yeah, in gaming and also in like fitness.00:01:11XochitlOh yeah, definitely.00:01:13JackYeah, like like someone would say like.00:01:16JackDid you have?00:01:16JackA good workout today. And you're like, yeah, I.00:01:18JackWent beast mode.00:01:21JackAnd it means they did like a very intense workout. Or I watch basketball highlights. I I love to watch, like NBA highlights and stuff like that. And sometimes the announcer will go whoa. LeBron James went beast mode on the other team or whatever.00:01:41JackAnd so it's kind of like.00:01:41XochitlMm-hmm.00:01:44JackGoing above and beyond the normal expectation to like a very intense and focused mode of being, I guess what about in gaming? What what it, what does, what does it mean in that respect?00:02:02XochitlUM beast mode? Yeah, I think it's just like it's the same as, like with athletics, I honestly think.00:02:08XochitlThat my generation sometimes sees like gaming as an extreme sport. Basically. Yeah, it is. And so it's like you have competitions and all this stuff. And and I think that it's basically it has the same exact meaning, but just applying it to gaming.00:02:13JackYeah, it is now.00:02:24JackYou're just killing.00:02:24JackA lot of people, and you're doing really, really well in the game and you, you're basically you're going to beat mode, yeah.00:02:29XochitlKilling it.00:02:30XochitlYeah, going beast mode.00:02:32JackYeah. OK. So there you go listeners, you can use Beast mode when you study English. Study real hard and go beast mode.00:02:43Jack#2 this one I have never heard before, but I'm curious if you have bracketology.00:02:53XochitlAcology.00:02:54JackBracketology yeah.00:02:57XochitlRocketown energy. I don't think I've ever. I haven't heard of it. I haven't heard of it.00:03:02JackYeah, this is for this.00:03:04JackIs for people who are like.00:03:04XochitlOhh I know what bracketology is. Ohh I do I do I just it just hit me. I remember all those YouTube videos that were trending in 2022 and 2023 where it would like put things into.00:03:16XochitlTo brackets, so do like a BCS level or whatever. Brackets yours kind of. Is that what we're talking about?00:03:25JackExactly. And it's.00:03:26JackIt's mostly comes from, like online gambling on sports or just people who love sports. So, you know, for example, there's a the college basketball NCAA Tournament, which is happens in March. They call it March Madness.00:03:45JackAnd people love to try to predict the outcomes of the of the games. And so bracketology is the practice or study of predicting outcomes of elimination in tournaments or competitions. So.00:04:04JackTechnology is the practice of that.00:04:07JackSo they, you know, I mean it, it didn't really need a name, you know, like filling out a bracket for trying to predict, which, you know, people will do it for the World Cup, for soccer and stuff like that too. But now it has a name. And so they call it bracketology.00:04:14JackMHM.00:04:27JackWhich is kind of interesting I think.00:04:29XochitlOK, I remember actually doing this.00:04:33XochitlIn Kentucky, like when I was growing up in high school during madness. Yeah. Yep. It's a big basketball state.00:04:35JackOhh big basketball state, yes.00:04:41XochitlDuring March Madness, which is like the kickoff of the basketball season, right, we would have these like paper like we would get these during school. They'd give us, like, uh, a paper with little brackets and you would put, like, the sports team, your sports teams or whatever on them they went.00:04:56JackYeah. And what? What did you did you go based on like, the colors of the jerseys or something like I?00:05:02JackWant blue wind and.00:05:02XochitlI could. I honestly think I was. I honestly think I just like.00:05:07XochitlI have no idea. I think I just spaced out or I would just like write down some random stuff and then spend the extra time that everyone else was doing. It was like drawing on the back of the paper.00:05:17JackRight, right. Right, right. Yeah.00:05:19JackIf you're not into sports, I I think bracketology is probably maybe the most boring thing, but the the fact that, like now sports gambling has been legalized in.00:05:31JackErica, I think a lot of people are really getting into, you know, brackets and sports and betting on games and things like that. And so because of gambling, I think that people are taking it much more seriously because there's money involved. Right? And so, so they've actually.00:05:48XochitlOh yeah.00:05:51JackGiving it a proper name. So there you go, listeners bracketology.00:05:58JackAnd our last one is chefs kiss.00:06:05XochitlOhh chef because I is is the one I'm definitely familiar with. It's like the if something's perfect, it's like ohh chefs kiss more and the person kisses their hand. Like when the chef makes a perfect meal. Yeah, that's kind of what it is.00:06:18JackYeah.00:06:22JackRight. Kissing the fingertips of your hand. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, you know, like, yeah, the chefs, chefs kiss with, like, you're, like, throwing a kiss kind of to the chef or celebrate.00:06:34XochitlYou know, to the perfection of the dish or whatever you created or whatever.00:06:38XochitlIs going on.00:06:39XochitlYeah.00:06:40발표자Yeah, I've. I've never, I've.00:06:42JackNever really liked this one. I do use it sometimes when I am teaching a class and you know it's Korean students and I tell them, like my favorite dish. I'll say something like, you know.00:06:58JackI don't know some kind of some kind of Korean dish, and I'll and I'll do the chefs kiss and to kind of emphasize how much I really love that dish and.00:07:11JackEverybody sees it's.00:07:12JackKind of a universal gesture, isn't it?00:07:15XochitlYeah, yeah, I think well, in the US, it certainly is. I don't know if it is other places. Uh, yeah.00:07:23JackYeah, my Korean students tend to understand when I do this, but.00:07:27XochitlOh, when you do this as kids. Oh, interesting. I think because of the propagation of U.S. media culture, like our movies are seen all over the world. And our TV shows are seen all over the world. So I think because of that, a lot of our gestures are like adopted.00:07:28JackYeah, yeah.00:07:41XochitlInto other cultures.00:07:42JackI totally agree.00:07:43JackWith you, I was thinking of like ratatouille or something like that.00:07:46XochitlYes, exactly. Ratatouille, I agree.00:07:50XochitlYeah, alright. 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