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โPandemicโ picked as 2020 word of the year by Dictionary.com
Read full article: โPandemicโ picked as 2020 word of the year by Dictionary.comOver time, we were pandemic baking and pandemic dating and rescuing pandemic puppies from shelters. All of which led Dictionary.com on Monday to declare โpandemicโ its 2020 word of the year. For about half the year, it was in the top 10% of all our lookups.โAnother dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year earlier Monday. Kelly said pandemic beat out routine lookups usually intended to sort more mundane matters, such as the differences between โto, two and too.โโThat's significant,โ Kelly emphasized. The pandemic as an event created a new language for a new normal.โLexicographers often factor out routine lookups when evaluating word trends.