‘Pandemic’ chosen as Word of the Year
New York City, USReuters The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website, after a year in which at least 1.4 million people globally have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. People walk beneath […]
Out of school, in the dictionary: ‘Climate strike’ declared ‘word of the year’
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation With climate protests surging around the world, Collins Dictionary has declared ‘climate strike’ its 2019 ‘word of the year’, noting the term’s use has soared 100 times higher than in previous years. The Glasgow-based company bases its choice on an annual search of websites, newspapers, magazines and social media to see […]
STRANGESIGHTS: WORDS OF THE YEAR; A LIVING CHRISTMAS DECORATION; AND, A PIE IN THE SKY…
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