A year In Words
There’s no single word that can define 2020, even Oxford English Dictionary (OED) couldn’t settle for one. And so, OED’s lexicographers chose multiple “Words of the Year” from a corpus of more than 11 billion found in web-based news, blogs and other text sources that reprise the “seismic shifts in language data and precipitous frequency rises in new coinage” over the past 12 months. Your guess is as good as ours—most of the chosen words are pandemic-related: coronavirus, lockdown, circuit-breaker, support bubbles, keyworkers, furlough, face masks, remote, remotely, on mute, unmute, workation, staycation etc. Can’t help adding our own Covided to the list!
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