Monday 30 November 2020

Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com choose same word of the year: pandemic

John Kelly, senior research editor at Dictionary.com, said searches for ‘pandemic’ spiked more than 13,500% in March

For the first time, two US dictionary companies on Monday declared the same word their word of the year: “pandemic”.

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