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“Saudade” was chosen as the “Word of the Year” for 2020, chosen by just over 25% “of the approximately 40 thousand Internet users” who participated in the online voting, Porto Editora, promoter of the initiative since 2009, announced this Monday.
“Of the approximately 40 thousand Internet users who participated in this vote, 26.8% chose [Saudade], a word so associated with the soul of the Portuguese “.
The votes for “Saudade” surpassed those of “covid-19” and “pandemic”, placed in second and third place, respectively, according to a statement from the editorial group, sent to the Lusa agency.
“Covid-19” came in second place, not too far away, with 24.4%, followed by “pandemic” with 17.03%, according to the editorial.
From the podium they were “confinement”, which obtained 16.23% of the online votes, followed by “hyssop” (7%), “telescola” (2.58%), “discrimination” (1.85%), ” infodemia “(1.59%),” digitization “(1.33%) and, finally,” homeless people “(1.16%).
This was the twelfth edition of the “Word of the Year” initiative, and the ‘online’ voting took place from December 1 to December 31 of last year.
The list of words subject to voting was constructed from “the research carried out in the Dictionary of the Portuguese Language, at www.infopedia.pt, on the permanent work of observation and monitoring of the reality of the Portuguese language, carried out by Porto Editora “, and in the suggestions made through the website www.palavradoano.pt, explains the editorial group.
In this edition, according to Porto Editora, there were 10,000 more voters than last year.
The votes in Portugal were carried out simultaneously with those in Angola and Mozambique, promoted by Plural Editores, of the Porto Editora Group, which will subsequently announce the respective results.
“Saudade”, elected in 2020, happens “violence [doméstica]”(2019) to” nurse “(2018),” fires “(2017),” gadget “(2016),” refugee “(2015),” corruption “(2014),” firefighter “(2013),” entroikado ” (2012), “austerity” (2011), “vuvuzela” (2010) and “grinding” (2009).
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