'Swiftie' added as a word to Dictionary.com

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ABC Audio: Taylor Swift-related word added to Dictionary.com. “It’s not like it’s a new word, but Dictionary.com has made it official: The word ‘Swiftie’ was added to the website as part of its Fan Favorite Winter Word Drop 2026. ‘Swiftie’ is one of the 1,500 words that the website has just added, along with similar terms ‘Beyhive,’ ‘Janeite’ and ‘Trekkie.'”

December 2025 Grab Bag o’ Humour

I just saw a McDonald’s ad using the phrase “Up and at M” where M was really the golden arches. But because copyright law rewards the most aggressive companies the most, I now fully expect McDonald’s to sue the Simpsons.

You see the Simpson’s crossed the line when they, 30 years previously, had Radioactive Man utter the catch phrase “Up and Atom.”

Now the Simpsons could aggressively sue McDonald’s if they do it right away. But the Simpsons likely won’t, assuming that McDonald’s is an advertising customer at times.

If McDonald’s does this on the down low, expect newer airings of those Radioactive Man episodes to contain the more boring phrase, “Up and at them”.

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I’m thinking of starting my own dictionary. Yes it has to do with the way dictionaries choose their word of the year.

Look at it this year. The Oxford word of the year was “rage bait”. Macquarie dictionary chose “AI slop” as its word of the year. Collins dictionary chose “vibe coding” as its word for the year and Dictionary.com chose “six seven” as its word of the year.

But hope remains. Cambridge dictionary chose “parasocial” as its word of the year. That’s right, only one of these five dictionaries knew the definition of word. That’s a big fail for most of the dictionary world.

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I remember thinking what the *bleep* when I watched the video 6 years ago of “Harleys in Hawaii” by Katy Perry. You see, at the end, the video says “Produced by Canada for Katy Perry and Capitol Records”.

I wondered if the government of Canada was trying to make inroads into the music video market. Perhaps more production money would flow into Canadian coffers. But I have yet to see a video since produced by Canada. And why this one? With American Katy Perry. Set in Hawaii. So much about this is weird.

The Canada logo they show is not the one they use for normal government branded stuff. Perhaps there is some American production company going by the name Canada.

Now Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada six years ago, is dating Katy Perry. Is this supposed to be Canada’s payoff for producing the video? As a Canadian I have to say it doesn’t work for me.

But I got curious and did some digging and found that Canada is a Catalan production company.

Maybe Katy manifested something Canadian by choosing that production company.

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Das Grazi (oder so ähnlich).

#Dictionarycom erklärt »67« zum Wort des Jahres 2025.

CBS News: Dictionary.com picks “67,” a “nonsensical and playfully absurd” slang term, as the 2025 word of the year. “Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen ’67’ — pronounced ‘six seven,’ not sixty-seven — as its 2025 Word of the Year. 67 is an ambiguous slang term made popular by Gen Alpha on social media and in schools and friend groups across the country.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/31/cbs-news-dictionary-com-picks-67-a-nonsensical-and-playfully-absurd-slang-term-as-the-2025-word-of-the-year/

#Dictionarycom names #67 as 2025 #Word of the Year. Here's what it really means.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/29/dictionary-2025-word-of-the-year-67-slang/86944605007

Ars Technica: Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists. “Logophiles are ‘devastated’ after Dictionary.com deleted their logs of favorited words that they carefully crafted for years. The company deleted all accounts, as well as the only ways to use Dictionary.com without seeing ads —even if you previously paid for an ad-free experience.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/ars-technica-dictionary-com-devastated-paid-users-by-abruptly-deleting-saved-words-lists/

Dictionary.com's new business model: take money, delete everything, refuse to elaborate further 📚💸 Paid users lost years of saved words and ad-free access without warning or refunds. Even logophiles are struggling to find words for this betrayal.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/17/2329217/dictionarycom-devastated-paid-users-by-abruptly-deleting-saved-word-lists

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Missed our annual #WOTY episode? Head to our YouTube channel at 4:30 PM ET to catch up on the stories behind the 2023 words of the year.

Watch it here: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo

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