dictionary.com yesterday, i don't know if you heard this, they unveiled their word of the year.y do this every year. the word of the year for 2022 is -- [ drumroll ] "woman." the word of the year. [ cheers and applause ] is that exciting? i think it's terrific. you know, it wasn't so long ago women weren't even allowed in the dictionary. [ laughter ] the word of the year is woman? doing such a good job with the whole equality thing if the dictionary has to give its best new artist award to half the human race. [ laughter ] the senior director of editorial at dictionary.com, john kelly, said the very matter of the definition of the word "woman" was at the center of so many consequential moments, discussions, and decisions in our society. congratulations. it's taken 200,000 years since language was created, we finally have a word for you and it's woman. [ laughter ] so, dictionary.com's word of 2022 was "woman." oxford's word of the year was "goblin mode." for real. [ laughter ] and merriam-webster's was "gaslighting" in 2022. [ laughter ] put them all together and you have marjor

announced woman as their word of the year, dictionary.com they write that dictionary is not that last wor on what defines a woman, the word belongs to each and every woman how they defined themselves, that's not a definition, that is choose your own adventure. i went to the cambridge dictionary they just added to their definition it woman to include an adult who lives and identifies as female while they may have been said to have a different at birth. the oxford dictionary is more confusing with 18 new gender identity definitions this year, words like pn gender, multisexual, brother boy and sister girl, for a moment a boy i guy who had a brother must have been a brother boy, no oxford defines brother boy as biological girl who expresses herself as a male, are you confused? it seems everybody is. >> lit as a woman? can you tell me what a woman is? ticket now i can't. it's not for me to say. womanhood looks different for everybody. used it up there instead tree and swim in our women, what you mean? >> womanhood is something that cannot define. >> this is a problem because language is ho

meanwhile, there's big news from the world of words, because dictionary.com's word of the year is 'womaneers and applause). >> stephen: okay. really? the word of the year describes half of the world's population? which year are we talking here? 1? (as caveman) "garg, i met someone different. they are like man, but woah!" according to dictionary.com, women are officially in the zeitgest because of major stories like the supreme court's overturning of roe v. wade, the iran protests, and the death of queen elizabeth ii. right. because when queen elizabeth died we were definitely googling the word woman and not "corgies, euthanized, question mark?" i'm not saying i would do it, just curious. meanwhile, scientists have uncovered the oldest known narrative piece of art. it's an 11,000-year-old carving in turkey that features a man holding his phallus as leopards corner him. it's a tale old as time. anyone who's ever had a leopard safety course knows... if you're ever naked and encounter a leopard, hold your junk. that's a cheetah, i think thatwt me grther one of eon a d canadila first ketchup,

the word woman has been selected as the word of the year by dictionary.com.omen editor maggie mcgrath, also the driving force of the know your value and forbes annual 50 over 50 list. i guess first of all why was this word chosen as the word of the year? and what does it say about how it's shaping our national dialogue? >> well, mika, as we saw in that fabulous reel that just played, and this is what the folks at dictionary.com said, the word woman was inseparable from the story of 2022. and we see that in the numbers. dictionary.com over the course of 2022 saw the doubling in the number of searches for this word. the biggest jump came in march. there was a 1,400% surge in people looking for the word woman, and that was because of the senate confirmation hearings for judge ketanji brown jackson for the supreme court. she was asked, can you define the word woman? and she basically said no, i can't, and then in a followup question the next day she said i know that i am a woman. i think that's what a lot of us would say. that's also what dictionary.com says. we'

dictionary.com announces word of the as woman of is banned. the year as woman of is banned.e man. it is going to be it's to be going to be it's going to be woman. pool searches of woman. but the pool searches of the word increased by 4000% because no one knows what a woman is anymore. yeah simply what it is. people are literally like, what is a woman? so they're just googling it. the it's being, you know, the statements said all selection of women reflects how intersection of gender language dominates the current cultural conversation and shapes much of the work as i think we all think the dictionary is to need to change their definition of it because i've it and i still have no idea what woman not. yeah well, dictionary.com have stuck with an adult perfectly good an adult person perfectly good definition. never, never, never. must ensure . yeah, nothing wrong must ensure. yeah, nothing wrong with that. was working for with that. that was working for years. course there's now years. but of course there's now dictionary other day dictionary because the other day the dictionar

dictionary.com announces word of the as woman of is banned. the year as woman of is banned.e man. it is going to be it's to be going to be it's going to be woman. pool searches of woman. but the pool searches of the word increased by 4000% because no one knows what a woman is anymore. yeah simply what it is. people are literally like, what is a woman? so they're just googling it. the it's being, you know, the statements said all selection of women reflects how intersection of gender language dominates the current cultural conversation and shapes much of the work as i think we all think the dictionary is to need to change their definition of it because i've it and i still have no idea what woman not. yeah well, dictionary.com have stuck with an adult perfectly good an adult person perfectly good definition. never, never, never. must ensure . yeah, nothing wrong must ensure. yeah, nothing wrong with that. was working for with that. that was working for years. course there's now years. but of course there's now dictionary other day dictionary because the other day the dictionar

it woke up plenty of people an got them to fight, which led dictionary.com to choose woman as the wordthose who attempt to poach our rights are being taught lesson that most of us, frankly, have done our whole lives. don't you mess with women. now, the, we face a series o upcoming court decisions tha could actually chisel away a our rights even further. affirmative action is on the line as our lgbtq+ rights and democracy itself so, let's bring in some folk to write this down mark joseph stern is a senio writer for slate and alexi mcgill johnson is the presiden and ceo of planned parenthood. mark, every single time this year, something has gone dow with the supreme court, we hav chatted. so, i'm going to start with yo because these decisions, as we have discussed, are just s wildly out of step with th majority of what americans believe. but that fact has now not stop these right-wing activists fro waging these legal battles a the state level, all in hope of just getting these cases to the supreme court. is that just really where we are right now? >> absolutely. the supreme court justice