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 ...

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 ...

After a year filled with coronavirus crackdowns and social distancing measures, Collins Dictionary felt it was only fitting for the 2020 word of the year to describe the state so many people worldwide ...

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 ...

Some runners-up include coronavirus, malarkey, schadenfreude, icon and kraken. In what would have been unthinkable a year ago to what seems like a fairly obvious choice now, Merriam-Webster announced ...

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 ...

It’s safe to say that the coronavirus pandemic will define 2020. Literally, as both Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com named “pandemic” their word of the year on Monday, and Oxford Dictionaries has ...

People look words up in online dictionaries all the time for all kinds of reasons. But there are moments — a presidential election for example — when certain words receive outsized attention. And ...