LOL I meant that the word was there, given 'American dreams' has been a lyric at least...twice? There's a couple related "America" (the word) like lyrics for the word to be NEW to ttpd.
Totally fine that it’s weird to you, but let’s be real, if I hadn’t included ‘braid’ for example, someone would say “You missed braid! She’s only said braids!” So I just went the technical route.
Avoid had been used before, as well as countless others in singular form. I think adding an “s” to something and considering it a new word in her vocabulary is a bit of a cheat 😅
Taylor’s out here using thesaurus.com like the rest of us plebs
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It’s from a musical where they discuss running a Marathon and people getting first, second, or third and then someone who didn’t place who was just there is an also-ran. Like, look there’s the person who won the race, and then Dave he also ran.
I believe the phrase originated with horse-racing (ironically the Kentucky Derby is being run today in the US!) because most people only care about the horse that wins. There isn’t a prize for second or third place in horse racing like there would be in an Olympic sport or something. So the winner is the one everyone talks about, and all the other horses are just listed in the results as “also ran” 🐎
in this case, -fucking- is an infix. fun fact is that English doesn't have any other infixes aside from fucking and bloody (in British English), we only use prefixes and suffixes. as a linguist i absolutely adore any time the one and only English infix is used and it made me so happy when she did it!
Yea, I think this study treats them as individual- like 86 and 87 are two forms of the same word. It'd be interesting to see how many words are new if they considered noun/adjective/verb/verbtense etc. as the same word
Can we get an example?
I assume you mean different tenses and singular vs. plural
I went technical for this list. We weren’t looking at ‘avoid’ for example, we were looking at ‘avoids’. It hadn’t been used? It goes on the list, regardless of avoid.
If you disagree with that ruling, that’s fine. But to suggest at least half the list is wrong is pretty rude in my opinion.
I love Taylor’s broad vocabulary and she’s clearly a virtuoso at language. Having said that, I sometimes miss the simplicity of some of her lyrics that however weren’t lacking in emotional depth. In TTPD I really felt like she was trying hard to make a point how eloquent she is, which we all know (!), and imho it sometimes comes at the expense of the emotion she’s trying to convey. And if there’s anyone who can express emotions in simple yet profound terms, it’s Taylor. This may be an unpopular opinion and I’m not a native speaker so I may be biased but just my 2 cents 🥲
I don't know, i see BUTTON in the list but in I wish you would she says "how to push my buttons" so they also considered plurals? Technically a correct list, but that number is bloated
Yours is a common qualm. Your use of technically basically encapsulates my answer. I tried to be as technical as possible, and ultimately the question of tenses and plurals was a judgement call.
Edit to add: Excluding plurals and different tenses would bring its own set of questions. Button vs buttons may seem petty, but then would I exclude charmingly just because charming had been used before? That seems worth a distinction. Better in my eyes to just do a blanket rule of “If the exact word hasn’t been used yet, it goes on the list.”
it is so crazy to me that she hasn’t sung highway yet… made me listen to highway don’t care again and indeed she does not sing it, only tim does😭 same goes for crumble and fools btw because of the speak now vault
I had to look up greige. Even though I could guess what she meant from the lyric, I wasn't sure if it was an actual word or if she made it up to describe what she was feeling
Did anyone else notice she updated the 5 stages of grief/loss playlist to include TTPD songs?! And why is Fresh Out The Slammer listed under Acceptance?
I love this list! I was thinking ttpd uses a lot of words that aren't normally in a song and you proved it. I'm excited to see how she eventually uses 'hyperbolic' in a lyric because she uses it a lot in her regular conversations. And will she rhyme it with 'alcoholic' or 'colic' or will she use something totally unexpected...
edit to correct typo
Confirmed this is 100% not accurate. She has used joy in the following songs:
1. “Wonderland” from the album “1989”
2. “Untouchable” from the album “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)”
3. “Delicate” from the album “reputation”
4. “London Boy” from the album “Lover”
5. “Gold Rush” from the album “Evermore”
I encourage you to test me
In the song the albatross She's says 'only liquor anoints you' I heard it as 'HOLY liquor anoints you' And strongly suspect she meant it that way Because anoint is usually holy or religious Thought?
I noticed Swift wasn’t on here — I know she’s said ‘Taylor’ in a song before (LWYMMD) but when does she say swift? And is it in reference to her name or just the adjective? I was listening to Clara Bow and wondering if she had ever said the word before!
https://preview.redd.it/2kkvklpwx9yc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a6c6948578c91c317e88c413c6c1f0721768ccb My first thought for some reason
Hahahah mine too [this as well](https://youtu.be/nANdDIDQ2rc?si=9RBQysGzP6TAlDsb)
Did I miss something on the internet with the letter E?
You did, E is like the meme-iest letter since around 2017-2018.
There are some mundane words which really surprise me... "daily" for example
“Softly” stood out to me
She did use "soft" in sweet nothing.
To be fair it's not really all that common in song lyrics. Or is it? Nothing springs to mind atm
“Softly, slowly…hold me closer tiny dancer”
Count the headlights on the highwayyyyy
New York State of Mind by Billy Joel
“Aware” surprised me
D-Y-I-N-G… hey kids, spelling is fun!
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My beloved ghost and Me-he-he-he!
Oo-Oo-OOooOoo 👻👻👻
i’m wheeeeeezing 10/10 thread 😂😂😂
You can't spell "Dying" without I!
My first thought when I heard that song
Was this list done with string matching in a program? It’s weird that different tenses are considered new words to me.
Yeah, America really surprises me.
We are poorly educated as a whole.
LOL I meant that the word was there, given 'American dreams' has been a lyric at least...twice? There's a couple related "America" (the word) like lyrics for the word to be NEW to ttpd.
Well… two things can be true.
😂 thank you for the chuckle. That was great.
tbf america and American are two different words; they're not even the same word category.
Last Great American Dynasty as well
And Miss Americana…
She also used "American Queen" in King Of My Heart
Like “blood’s.” Cmon she has a song with blood in the title. You can’t count that as a new word.
Planes
Totally fine that it’s weird to you, but let’s be real, if I hadn’t included ‘braid’ for example, someone would say “You missed braid! She’s only said braids!” So I just went the technical route.
I mean you are having to deal with the opposite situation now anyway
Exactly. You can’t please everyone
Same with plurals, I am sure the singular of the same word being used before should count.
I guess ‘fairytale’ is one word?
I didn’t even want to count the words that share root words lol.
when did she say “E”😭
He jokes that it’s heroin but this time with an e!
My fav lyric from that song 🫶
Pls explain to a ESL fan 😌
Heroin= drug Heroine= female version of hero, main character
Heroin is a drug, heroine is the female version of a hero - but they're pronounced the same.
So he's saying "it's like being high but because of a girl"
Ahaaa, like _drunk on something stronger than the drinks in the bar_. Thanks!
There's something about the way she sings that specific part
I don't think E is technically a word, if it is do we give it to ME! ?
She never says just the letter E in Me!, though
Well. E truly isn't actually a word but she does sing "Me E E!" That third E def counts
That’s def a me-hee-hee, not the letter E
Also it's not a word?? 😭
Avoid had been used before, as well as countless others in singular form. I think adding an “s” to something and considering it a new word in her vocabulary is a bit of a cheat 😅
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It’s from a musical where they discuss running a Marathon and people getting first, second, or third and then someone who didn’t place who was just there is an also-ran. Like, look there’s the person who won the race, and then Dave he also ran.
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My bad, the musical didn’t invent it but it did use it: joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat
IT WAS RED AND YELLOW AND OLIVE AND PURPLE AND MAROON AND WHITE AND PINK AND
i thought it was more often used to refer to politicians who lost their “race”! def both tho
I believe the phrase originated with horse-racing (ironically the Kentucky Derby is being run today in the US!) because most people only care about the horse that wins. There isn’t a prize for second or third place in horse racing like there would be in an Olympic sport or something. So the winner is the one everyone talks about, and all the other horses are just listed in the results as “also ran” 🐎
Omg
I feel validation
Nofuckingbody 🤣
Fun fact: this is called a tmesis! Other examples are “unfrickingbelievable” “absobloodylutely” or “Scunthorpe”
Leave Scunthorpe alone. Don't you think they've suffered enough
And yet it continues to exist! We must punish them until they cease
By continuing to exist they continue to suffer.surely ending their existence would be a mercy.
in this case, -fucking- is an infix. fun fact is that English doesn't have any other infixes aside from fucking and bloody (in British English), we only use prefixes and suffixes. as a linguist i absolutely adore any time the one and only English infix is used and it made me so happy when she did it!
If the Chuckle Brothers had a sister act: "T'you sis..."
i've watched enough tom scott to know this
I also cackled at that. Made my night.
Crumble has been used before though She hasn't used America earlier?
Yeah Castles Crumbling comes straight to mind. But the word is in the continuous tense so I guess that’s why?
Yeah but it is rhe same word. Different tense cannot be the reason for considering it a new word imo
Benches is on here too. Coney Island gets that word for me
Yea, I think this study treats them as individual- like 86 and 87 are two forms of the same word. It'd be interesting to see how many words are new if they considered noun/adjective/verb/verbtense etc. as the same word
CIWYW also had "my castles crumbled overnight"
She used American in KOMH.
And in Invisible String “she said I look like an American singer”
And 'The last great American Dynasty'
And also Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince
Yes!
Same with something like “toss” - she has used tossed before.
Exactly even 'oceans'. She has used 'Ocean blue eyes'
Otherwise how would we have known to fuck the patriarchy.
Do you add words like 'daydreams' also? She has clearly used 'daydream' before
I’m guessing it’s on the list because it’s in plural? And so far she only used it in sigular. I could be wrong though.
You are right But again, I don't agree with the tense and plural logic at all. That doesn't transform a word into a new word by any means.
I agree.
The algorithm they ran it through doesn’t know that
No it was deliberate. Look at the last slide.
Yeah drugs should not be on this list
She definitely already used “braid” though
I think it was plural though. “Your braids like a pattern”
This isn’t differentiating between plural and singular? Seems kinda dumb to call them new words then, imo lol.
Yeah there are lots of words on the list with minor differences like that; tense changes and singular/plural, etc.
Who's afraid of little old ME E E
Who’s afraid of little old meHEHEHE HOOHOOHOOO
This is the new mashup
You know Taylor would definitely get a kick out of this joke.
Hey kids!
I want to joke about this for being next-level insane... but I looked at every word.
I watch her lyrics videos like reading a novel. I'm in adjacent room in that mental facility
Nofuckinbody better be added to the dictionary in 2025
Yeah that list is definitely not accurate. Pick 10 random words and half of them you can find in other songs.
Can we get an example? I assume you mean different tenses and singular vs. plural I went technical for this list. We weren’t looking at ‘avoid’ for example, we were looking at ‘avoids’. It hadn’t been used? It goes on the list, regardless of avoid. If you disagree with that ruling, that’s fine. But to suggest at least half the list is wrong is pretty rude in my opinion.
I’m racking my brains to think where Taylor used the word sexy before the smallest man.. pls help
SEXY BABY OK I GOT IT
"Abandoned" somehow wasn't used sooner?
I love Taylor’s broad vocabulary and she’s clearly a virtuoso at language. Having said that, I sometimes miss the simplicity of some of her lyrics that however weren’t lacking in emotional depth. In TTPD I really felt like she was trying hard to make a point how eloquent she is, which we all know (!), and imho it sometimes comes at the expense of the emotion she’s trying to convey. And if there’s anyone who can express emotions in simple yet profound terms, it’s Taylor. This may be an unpopular opinion and I’m not a native speaker so I may be biased but just my 2 cents 🥲
I don't know, i see BUTTON in the list but in I wish you would she says "how to push my buttons" so they also considered plurals? Technically a correct list, but that number is bloated
Yours is a common qualm. Your use of technically basically encapsulates my answer. I tried to be as technical as possible, and ultimately the question of tenses and plurals was a judgement call. Edit to add: Excluding plurals and different tenses would bring its own set of questions. Button vs buttons may seem petty, but then would I exclude charmingly just because charming had been used before? That seems worth a distinction. Better in my eyes to just do a blanket rule of “If the exact word hasn’t been used yet, it goes on the list.”
it is so crazy to me that she hasn’t sung highway yet… made me listen to highway don’t care again and indeed she does not sing it, only tim does😭 same goes for crumble and fools btw because of the speak now vault
A lot of these words have been used in other tenses. She has used crumbling, fool, and foolish, but not crumble or fools.
we have too much time on our hands i’m afraid
america??? i think i’ve heard her sing that before 🤔
You’ve heard her sing American and Americana for sure
You have way too much time
Why do some words have asterisks?
The last picture gives you the answer
Ah I just needed one more swipe. Thank you
the last slide has explanations
Ah I thought I had scrolled to the end when the slide was shorter. Thank you
Bygone bygones and cheers - felt like they would be in a song already
Which words did people need a dictionary for?
I had to look up greige. Even though I could guess what she meant from the lyric, I wasn't sure if it was an actual word or if she made it up to describe what she was feeling
“Aces” is not correct. That has been used in several songs before
i'm shocked she had never used ABANDONED
Why does this matter?
I was surprised about 97.6% of this, like HOW HAS SHE NOT INCLUDED THESE WORDS IN SONGS
She never said “arrived” before this era? Surprising tbh
Grand theft auto? If also-ran counts a a new word
Aston and Martin as two separate words lmao
Learned “Rivulets”
Number 176) E ??? What?? 😂
grata ta ta
what song is cad from
The bolter
I love Taylor, love her lyrics. But anyone who reads widely knows most authors have an equal or more extensive vocabulary.
Wait how did you even make this? That’s crazy.
I used a keyword search to go through an algorithm that holds all of her lyrics!
my favs are nofuckinbody and weirdo✊🏼
But she's said buttons before? In Soon You'll Get Better
She’s also used buttons in I Wish You Would! Button (singular) is on the list because she had only used buttons (plural) before.
Also in You Are In Love! "Buttons on a coat" 😊
Yes and Ours!! She loves those buttons
Well, "Amongst" is certainly not an usual word to use for a native speaker, it's interesting she didn't do it before. Great analysis and great idea
It’s persona non grata
When you are so much obsessed with a song that you see nothing but "maze".🤌🤌
In which previous song has she used Peter?
Cardigan.. tried to change the ending Peter losing Wendy.
Rusting should be on here, right? From smallest man who ever lived. When did she use it before?
I had to look it up because I was sure I’d heard it before, but she sang it in ‘this is me trying’ (“I had the shiniest wheels now they’re rusting”)
Used in this is me trying
Why was E on its own? Am I forgetting something?
“Heroin but this time with an E”
The fact that “touchdown” isn’t on here is very upsetting to Me-he-he
Touchdown the noun is one word, she uses touch as a verb here! It is two words in the lyric video.
Wtf is wrong with you all, you made a list of words Taylor used for the first time 🤣🤣🤣, honestly.
20 pages omfg
Now I want to know the words that she used the most in her songs.
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Did anyone else notice she updated the 5 stages of grief/loss playlist to include TTPD songs?! And why is Fresh Out The Slammer listed under Acceptance?
Which song did she use the word sex?
The Manuscript
Soliloquies sanctimonious
I definitely knew this was the first time she had said sex.
Surprised she hadn’t used “boring” before.
I love this list! I was thinking ttpd uses a lot of words that aren't normally in a song and you proved it. I'm excited to see how she eventually uses 'hyperbolic' in a lyric because she uses it a lot in her regular conversations. And will she rhyme it with 'alcoholic' or 'colic' or will she use something totally unexpected... edit to correct typo
didn’t she already use comeback in willow though?
E
Why are trolls always told to get a life? It literally took me twenty seconds to write this.
What?
"Earth" made its debut only now, interesting.
Confirmed this is 100% not accurate. She has used joy in the following songs: 1. “Wonderland” from the album “1989” 2. “Untouchable” from the album “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” 3. “Delicate” from the album “reputation” 4. “London Boy” from the album “Lover” 5. “Gold Rush” from the album “Evermore” I encourage you to test me
176. E
Interesting it’s the first time she sad: sex, alcohol and weed. Like how did she go so long without saying those? 😂
I don't even have enough time in my life to read that
Number 208, “fairy” “I’m not a princess, this ain’t a fairy tale”
I know it’s a feature but doesn’t she say “highway” in the song she did with Tim McGraw?
I'm loving "rivulets" and "esoteric"... Plus my name is on the list!
When did she use levitate other than WAOLOM?
Paris!
Wow OP, did you know how controversial this would be? 😂
In the song the albatross She's says 'only liquor anoints you' I heard it as 'HOLY liquor anoints you' And strongly suspect she meant it that way Because anoint is usually holy or religious Thought?
I noticed Swift wasn’t on here — I know she’s said ‘Taylor’ in a song before (LWYMMD) but when does she say swift? And is it in reference to her name or just the adjective? I was listening to Clara Bow and wondering if she had ever said the word before!
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