Vape, meaning “to smoke an electronic cigarette,” is among the entries in Grant’s tenth annual Words of the Year List for The New York Times. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Vaping”
All right, I’ve got out my prognosticator glasses, and I’m prognosticating that the word vape will continue to catch on.
Vape. Vape, V-A-P-E. It means to smoke an electronic cigarette, an e-cigarette.
Oh, yeah, I bet that will. So these are, they look like cigarettes, and they have, they make steam, I believe. It carries the nicotine into your system, but there’s no tobacco involved.
So you have vape lounges where you can vape and you can buy vaping gear. Oh, interesting.
So yeah, vape being short for vapor. Huh. Yeah, vape, V-A-P-E.
So will there be vapors too, like V-A-P-E-R-S? People who vape? Yes. Yeah, it’s a good question. I don’t know that one yet, but I just know that they’re vaping.
Okay, well keep an eye on that. It still has to get over the hump of being a little kind of, how should I put this, the same people who wear Bluetooth earpieces, probably they. And fedora hats.
Yeah, and it’ll probably have an etymology made up about it, you know, like an acronym etymology. Ventilating air. Polluting. Something, I don’t know. Effulgence.
So we’ll come back in about 10 years and see if I was right to the word last. All right, so stay tuned.
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