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: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the Adas English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are going back to Webster's dictionary and looking at some words that have recently been added to Webster's Dictionary in 2023. 00:00:19 Jack And so so the first one, I have no idea what this means here. Uh finsta finsta. 00:00:28 Xochitl Ohh a Finn star. You you don't know what this. 00:00:32 Jack It sounds like some kind of. 00:00:33 Jack Tax thing that I have to file or something. 00:00:36 Xochitl No, no, it's a it's a an insta but for like friends, it's like a private insta which sounds kind of weird. 00:00:47 Xochitl Like friend in store or something, but it's a private insta. 00:00:52 Xochitl Cause a lot of people have per public Instagrams now and finsta just has more private content and it's less geared towards like it's not really a, it's a social media page in the same way that your personal Facebook would be a social media page and less in the way that a typical. 00:01:11 Xochitl Instagram is run, which is kind of for like likes and clout and stuff you. 00:01:15 Jack Ohh so like on Facebook I because I'm so old. I use Facebook. Uh. Mostly. Uhm I can. 00:01:23 Jack I can make my page public or private, right? I can. 00:01:26 발표자 3 MM. 00:01:27 Jack So only my friends can see it. But like other strangers out there in the world, cannot. If they if they go to my page, there's no information. 00:01:35 Jack Action there. This is basically like a second Instagram account, but it's it's just for your friends. Like any just for the people that you want to see it, not promoting your I don't know what the promoting yourself image or promoting your whatever you're selling or whatever that would be your public Instagram. 00:01:36 Xochitl Yes. 00:01:56 Jack Your regular Instagram. 00:01:58 Xochitl Yes. 00:01:59 Jack OK, alright. OK, fenced. Uh, it says here that it stands for fake. 00:02:00 발표자 3 Yeah. 00:02:04 Jack The. 00:02:05 Jack Like fake and Insta finsta. 00:02:07 Xochitl Instagram, huh? 00:02:08 Jack But maybe you're you said friend Insta. I think that makes more sense to me. Finsta like friend and Insta Finsta. 00:02:17 Xochitl Now I'm gonna Google it cause. 00:02:20 Xochitl What is fenced, which I'm sure our fans will be happy to hear? Yeah, fake Instagram account made so user can post images, interact with other accounts in a more private way. 00:02:30 Jack Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what you said. 00:02:30 발표자 3 Usually. 00:02:31 Xochitl From the accounts followers to close friends. Yeah. So that's what I thought, friend. Instant. Not fake insta. 00:02:36 Xochitl Yeah. 00:02:39 Jack Yeah. Well, we're we're quibbling over the portmanteau, but ultimately it doesn't matter. The meaning is exactly the same. Yeah, since OK. 00:02:44 Xochitl But the meaning is the same. The meaning is. 00:02:48 Xochitl Yes. 00:02:51 Jack All right, so #2, the second one is grammable. 00:02:59 Xochitl Uh grammable means able to post on Instagram. 00:03:05 Jack OK. 00:03:06 Xochitl Like if you're if you get some a plate of food and it's just glad that's not grammable, but if you get a a served like a plate of sushi and it's beautiful colors and really neat looking, then that's grammable. You can post it on the gram Instagram. 00:03:23 Jack OK. 00:03:25 Jack So I should I ask my wife, honey? 00:03:30 Jack Am I grammable? Is my face grammable? Yeah, I don't. I probably don't want to know the answer right to that. 00:03:36 Xochitl You probably, I think you'd probably be used more for like your outfit. Like if you dressed up like an outfit and a certain outfit and you're like, is this outfit grammable like I think it's it's less about like a person's attractiveness, learning more about like. 00:03:48 Jack Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's less about attractiveness. It's more