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 ...

What better word to describe an unprecedented year than… unprecedented? That was the conclusion of thousands of Dictionary.com users who cast a vote for the website’s People’s Choice 2020 Word of the ...

Merriam-Webster on Monday announced "pandemic" as its 2020 word of the year. On March 11, when the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, lookups on the ...

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 ...

On Dec. 31, China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin to the World Health Organization. By Jan. 31, WHO declared an outbreak of a novel coronavirus a global health emergency. Come ...

How has your 2020 been? There have surely been highs and lows for everyone, but one thing we've all shared is the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, now that it's time for popular dictionaries ...

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 ...

Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its word of year. “That probably isn’t a big shock,” Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press. In its noun ...

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 ...

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 ...