2020 really has been an ANNUS HORRIBILIS for the Whole Human Race due to the Pandemic Coronavirus ~ COVID 19. New words like LOCKDOWN have come & gone. Its almost DECEMBER and still the Oxford English Dictionary has not been able to decide on the Definitive Word for the *Enigmatic Year 2020* Love Angela & Brian & Smokey ! ! !
The English Oxford Dictionary is really in DESPAIR
It likes to find a SPECIAL WORD to define each YEAR
But in TWENTY - TWENTY the Winners Plinth is EMPTY
NOT ONE but several WORDS ~ still under scrutiny I FEAR !
*Axis of Guilt* It was the WORD in TWO O O TWO
In TWO O O EIGHT the TWO WORDS *Credit Crunch* made it through
But alas for poor old TWENTY - TWENTY
The Word Cupboards are too FULL & never EMPTY
COVID 19 has replaced ~ C O R O N A V I R U S
R Numbers - Social Distancing - they mock & deride us
Vacations morphed to *Staycations* due to tra*vel restriction
LOCKDOWN became a part ~ of our everyday diction !
LOCKDOWN chosen by COLLINS ~ so we all applauded
Toasted in QUARANTINIS ~ from the booze that we had hoarded
GLOBAL CO2 dropped ~ LOCKDOWN was the cause
And it spawned a New Word ANTHROP-OCENE-PAUSE !
ZOOM described the Meetings ~ taking place on LINE
BORIS used this method for PM*s Question Time !
PPE*s Protective Clothing ~ as worn by all the MEDICS
What ONE WORD would You choose ? To define this D * M * PANDEMIC
Thanks for visit comments welcome ~ Love Angela - Brian - Smokey 💛💛💛
FOR A WORD TO BE CHOSEN BY THE OED AS *Word of the Year* it must be a NEW WORD ~ frequently used ~ that is prompted by the SOCIOPOLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES the of the YEAR. This is why COLLINS chose *LOCKDOWN* and that would be our choice as well ! Previous use (already in Dictionary) would exclude CORONAVIRUS & ZOOM etc etc.