[THREAD] "2020 is a year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one single ‘word of the year’.”
Oxford Dictionaries has expanded its usual Word of the Year due to an “unprecedented” 2020, with furlough, moonshot and Covid-19 among new terms on the list. 📖
@OxLanguages | #5News
Oxford Dictionaries has expanded its usual Word of the Year due to an “unprecedented” 2020, with furlough, moonshot and Covid-19 among new terms on the list. 📖
@OxLanguages | #5News
Superspreader and lockdown are other coronavirus-related words on the list.
Black Lives Matter, cancel culture and bushfire have also been added to the 'Words of an Unprecedented Year' report, relating to societal and environmental issues during the past 12 months.
Black Lives Matter, cancel culture and bushfire have also been added to the 'Words of an Unprecedented Year' report, relating to societal and environmental issues during the past 12 months.
The report says the usage of the word pandemic increased by 57,000% last year, while lexicographers found use of the word “coronavirus” passed one of the most frequently used nouns, time, in April.
Other terms which have seen a surge in use include unmute, and Zoombombing, a variant on photobombing which was first recorded as a word in 2008, and refers to disturbing online calls on Zoom.
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