The old fuddy duddy tries to keep up with the latest lingo, so every year itâs with great anticipation I look forward to Merriam-Websterâs list of words itâs added to its dictionary.
Merriam-Webster recently completed the latest task of its addition of words and it has added 640 words. And itâs good to know one of the great linguists of our time is Eminem.
Yes the rapper is responsible for one of the words Merrian-Webster has finally added, although I say finally, because Merrian-Webster and myself were quite slow when it came to catching on to this word. And even though the word has been around for 19 years, I admit itâs a word Iâve never heard of before.
Eminem came out with âStanâ in 2000 and when I saw the phrase âwe stanâ as in âwe stan that person,â my first though was obviously how lazy has this society become when we canât even spell out âstand.â My first inclination was to think that saying was a different take on âwe canât stand that personâ as in âwe stan that personâ or we sort of put up with someone.
But no âwe stan that personâ is pretty much the new fashioned way of stating the old fashioned way that you idolize someone.
Thereâs also âbuzzyâ which as I understand is pretty much the new fashioned way of stating the old fashioned way that someone is hyper.
These latest bunch of words now join Millennial classics as ârando,â âadorbsâ and âfavâ as official words. Whatever happened to âgnarlyâ and ârighteous?â
So I hope you wonât be a snowflake when I tell you youâre buzzy because that actually means I really can stan you.
What did I just say?
â Charles Whisnand
