The daily spike, he said, was "massive, but even more telling is how high it has sustained significant search volumes throughout the entire year." The Comedy Factory 15:45 New Words for a New World What words will be added to the dictionary after a year like this? 'Breakdown', 'sourdough', and 'existential malaise' are already in there. John Kelly, senior research editor at, told the Associated Press before breaking the news that searches on the site for pandemic spiked more than 13,500 per cent on March 11, the day the World Health Organization declared an outbreak of the novel coronavirus a global health emergency. It's probably the word by which we'll refer to this period in the future," he said.
"Often the big news story has a technical word that's associated with it and in this case, the word pandemic is not just technical but has become general. Pandemic "probably isn't a big shock," Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement. What single word sums up 2020? Oxford Languages couldn't decide, either The Oxford English Dictionary did not select a single word for 2020, instead saying that "2020 is a year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one single 'word of the year.'" In the land of lexicography, out of the whole of the English language, 2020′s word of the year is a vocabulary of one.įor the first time, two dictionary companies on Monday - Merriam-Webster and - declared the same word as their tops: pandemic.
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