i won t tell you. tom will tell you. our reporterfrom i won t tell you. tom will tell you. our reporter from the newsroom, tom. what is the most popular word all the most searched for word this year? the most searched for word this year was wordle, all around the world. if you do not know what wordle is it is a vocabulary game that exploded and popular play popularity during the pandemic and it gives you six guesses to whittle down what the word is and everyone around the world has the same word to get so it pits you against millions and millions of people and clearly thatis millions of people and clearly that is why people enjoy and that is why people enjoy and thatis that is why people enjoy and that is why people enjoy and that is why it is so up in this list i was surprised it was the word this year because we have were talking about it a few years ago, what otherwise came up? years ago, what otherwise came u - ? years ago, what otherwise came u . ? ., years ago, what otherwise
it s never black and white. everybody wants to say is it all this fault. i get it. if you belong to a group, you re proud to be whatever, italian american or this. but the problem is when we go into our groups and then we harden the lines and we say we start to play this game of gotcha. oh my god, you said that wrong. i don t think it should be we should be more generous. there are a lot of people angst about the direction that the country is going it s changing. it s not the country i used to know. that s understandable. that s just so instead of saying oh my gosh. you re a racist. talk. let s pur persuade. that s part of the problem with all of this. it s like a silencing. and also it becomes like a vocabulary game. i m so well trained on a college campus to say exactly the right thing. but oh my gosh, if people phrase it a certain way, it s like what is their intention. if they are just trying to have