2020 Words of the Year
Synch´-ron-ate” (verb): taping a TV or cable show, then watching it ” without commercials ” so as to finish at the same time as the live telecast.”
” Proposed addition to English language; Ross Kaplan.
The competition for word(s) of the year is especially stiff this year.
After all, thanks to Covid-19 and the 2020 Presidential election, there are a bevy of contenders including “subvert,” “social distance,” “pre-bunk,” and “de-platform.”
Regardless, I hereby offer up “synchronate” — as in, “to watch the 5:30 p.m. network news without commercials, you have to synchronate, i.e., join the live broadcast at 5:41 p.m., then fast-forward thru the commercials.
That way, you’ll finish the telecast at 6 p.m., exactly when the real-time program is concluding.
See also, “Watching the Oscars . . . But Skipping the Commercials.”
