It should come as no surprise that the word "pandemic" was deemed dictionary.com's word of the year for 2020. Seems fitting, considering the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has taken on the world ...

How do new words get into the dictionary? If you're a log, a foul or a lover of words, you probably already know the process for us common folk. You might not have a clue how the dictionary stays up ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word received the most user submissions. After Dictionary.com named "pandemic" its Word of the Year, users of the online dictionary elected "unprecedented" as the People's Choice 2020 Word of the ...

Merriam-Webster has announced its word of the year and it’s about as 2020 as it gets. The reference book company says based on a statistical analysis of words which are looked up in extremely high ...

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 ...

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 been an unprecedented, weird year, hasn't it? Now we're in November, we can finally say, the end of 2020 is nigh. It can't come soon enough. Before it does, one annual thing dictionaries love to ...

Merriam-Webster has deemed “pandemic” its word of the year for 2020. Merriam-Webster selected the word after conducting a statistical analysis of search traffic for words in its online dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has been unable to name its traditional word of the year for 2020, instead, exploring how far and how quickly the language has developed this year. "It quickly ...