NEW YORK (AP) — If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. “That ...

What better word to describe an unprecedented year than… unprecedented? That was the conclusion of thousands of Dictionary.com users who cast a vote for the website’s People’s Choice 2020 Word of the ...

Merriam-Webster on Monday announced "pandemic" as its 2020 word of the year. On March 11, when the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, lookups on the ...

On Dec. 31, China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin to the World Health Organization. By Jan. 31, WHO declared an outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global health emergency. Come ...

If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. “That probably isn't a ...

Unprecedented times beget unprecedented updates to the English language. That’s the major takeaway from the Oxford University Press — the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) — in its ...

Instead of crowning a single word as the winner, Oxford Languages looks at the pandemic’s swift and widespread impact on the English language. By Jennifer Schuessler Oxford Languages’s annual Word of ...

The interesting thing about language is that words tend to come and go. Terms and phrases that were once popular might now be irrelevant, and in some cases, too archaic to throw into any normal ...

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Ben Zimmer, a linguist and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, about the words of the year. And finally today, the coronavirus has affected nearly every aspect of our ...

Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its word of year. “That probably isn’t a big shock,” Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press. In its noun ...

NEW YORK — If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. “That ...