The Oxford Dictionary couldn't pick a single 'word of the year' for 2020

Words related to the coronavirus dominated this year, for example those on this poster that reads "avoid local lockdowns."

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The Oxford English Dictionary was unable to pick its traditional word of the year this 2020. Instead it explored how far and how quickly the language has developed during the year.

"It quickly became apparent that 2020 is not a year that can be perfectly accommodated in a single 'word of the year'," said the Oxford Dictionary.

And he added that the language adapted "quickly and repeatedly."

The report, titled 'Words from an Unprecedented Year', uses a term that itself has seen a large increase in use during 2020.

"Although what was really unprecedented this year was the hyper speed at which the English-speaking world accumulated a new collective vocabulary related to the coronavirus and the speed with which it became, in many cases, an essential part of the language," he says The report.

The report runs through the year, detailing the most important words in certain months based on peaks in usage.

It ranges from "

"

in January, when Australia suffered its worst fire season on record, to "

" in February, when President Donald Trump's impeachment trial ended.

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As of March, the terms related to the coronavirus pandemic begin to dominate.

These include "covid-19," an entirely new word that had first been recorded on February 11.

They also include "confinement" (

), "físicao distancing" (

) and "reopening" (

).

In June, the use of the phrase '

exploded, followed by '

and 'BIPOC', short for 'Black, indigenous and other people of color' which means "black, indigenous and other people of color."

Black Lives Matter protesters in Detroit, Michigan.

From 'Belarusian' to 'super-spreading': the words of the second semester from the Oxford Dictionary

"Mail" (

) and "Belarusian" (

) were marked as words for the month of August.

The first concerns voting by mail for the US elections and the second concerns the controversial reelection of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

'Moonshot', the name the UK government gave to its massive coronavirus testing program, appears in September.

"Net

" and "super

" (

), meanwhile, stand out in October.

"Net zero" refers to Chinese President Xi Jinping's promise that the country will be carbon neutral by 2060. Superpropagator, a word dating back to the 1970s, according to the Oxford Dictionary, saw an increase in use after a series of covid-19 cases in the White House.

The Oxford Dictionary was named "climate emergency" (

) as word of the year in 2019 and 'toxic' (

) in 2018.

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