In 2020 words … No words!

For the first time, the “Oxford” English dictionary decided not to choose the “word of the year”, describing 2020 as “a year that cannot be accurately understood in one word. Instead, the prominent reference dictionary declared “words from an unprecedented year,” from sound activation to mailing, and from “Coronavirus” to lockdown.

Yesterday Monday, the British newspaper “The Guardian” quoted the dictionary as saying that there are many words to summarize the events of 2020. The authors of the Oxford dictionary have revealed more than 11 billion words found in online news, blogs and other textual sources . They noted that there have been “seismic changes in linguistic data” over the past twelve months.
“Coronavirus”, one of the words of the year, is a term that dates back to the 1960s, although it was used by scientists before. In March of this year, it was one of the most widely used nouns in the English language. The dictionary noted that the term “Covid-19”, which was first recorded on February 11, 2020, in a report issued by the World Health Organization, quickly surpassed the “Corona virus” in frequency of use.
According to the Office of the Executive Director, one of the most prominent linguistic developments in 2020 is related to the scope of scientific terminology entering public discourse, “as we all become epidemiologists in a chair, and most of us are now familiar with the term ‘R number’ … “