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2026 Words Added To The Merriam-Webster Dictionary · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Light FM, Cubby, Christine, producer Kristen, you were talking during
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  Speaker 1: two pretty cool things about how you can go back
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  Speaker 1: to a time capsule and find out what words were
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  Speaker 1: added to the Merriam Dictionary. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, like, you go back to 1990 or 1988, it
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  Speaker 2: tells you what words were new. Like, word to your mother.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Was big in 1988.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Vanilla Ice Baby and said, word to your mother in 1990.
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  Speaker 2: So that was fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So what's going in this year, Christine?
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  Speaker 3: It's great, Cubby, because like you said, it is like
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  Speaker 3: a time capsule. So this year, Merriam-Webster is adding some
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  Speaker 3: new terms, and they say a lot of it has
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  Speaker 3: to do with pop culture, social media, new tech. We're
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  Speaker 3: getting entries like vibe coding, parasocial, Rick Roll, yacht rock,
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  Speaker 3: and Sunday scaries.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised Rick Roll... Is just going in now.
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  Speaker 3: Is just going in now.
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  Speaker 2: Because we've been saying it for like 15, 20 years.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And the other surprising one, what was after Rickroll? You
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  Speaker 2: mentioned something after Rickroll? Yacht Rock. Yacht Rock.
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  Speaker 3: That's been around a while, too.
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  Speaker 2: That term has been around to me for a long
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  Speaker 2: time as well, like 20 years or so.
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  Speaker 3: Sunday Scaries.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's been real for all our life.
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  Speaker 3: For food additions, we have Bao, Chili Crisp, and Superfood.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Other new additions, Cuffing Season.
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  Speaker 2: Love Cuffing Season.
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  Speaker 3: I know it. California Sober. I think that's where you
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  Speaker 3: allow yourself a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Glow up.
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  Speaker 3: Promposal. AGI, artificial general intelligence. Looks maxing.
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  Speaker 2: What's that mean? Anybody know that? Looks maxing? Is that
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  Speaker 2: maximizing your looks?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's like going to, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Like when it shows a little picture, it shows a
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  Speaker 3: guy on Instagram and his hair is all done and
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  Speaker 3: his skin looks perfect. And yeah, like making the most
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  Speaker 3: of it. Limerence. I don't know. Mandela effect.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I do know because I looked it up. It's a
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  Speaker 3: strange concept.
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  Speaker 2: Shapewear.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we had that one because Spanx and stuff
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  Speaker 3: have been around a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Shapewear is just going in in 2026.
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  Speaker 3: Just going in.
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  Speaker 2: Really? Yeah. Fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: But we've been utilizing it since, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Since, yeah, beginning of time.
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  Speaker 3: Forever. And neckbeard.
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  Speaker 2: Neckbeard. Do you know what that is?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Let me look it up. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got a couple. We need to look up limerence. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Neck beard. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: Kristen's showing us it's that fashion where the guy doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have anything on the.
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  Speaker 2: Chin or above the mouth. It doesn't connect to a
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  Speaker 2: mustache or anything.
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  Speaker 3: It literally is just around the jawline.
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  Speaker 2: Neck beard. I can't imagine the crumbs in that thing
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  Speaker 2: and all the dirty food in there. If you have one,
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
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