ANGELA & BRIAN

WORD OF THE YEAR 2020 ~ OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

 

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.