(Jeff The Angry Grammarian writing for the Inquirer)
The coronavirus pandemic has added many new words to our daily vocabulary. For instance:
Zoom, verb: to video-chat via a web application with college roommates, childhood friends, your sister’s ex-boyfriend’s yoga teacher’s cat. Most Americans have gone from never having heard of Zoom to verbing it regularly. Keep it capitalized, but come back to me if we’re still social distancing six months from now. We’ll see if it’s reached google status by then.
What else? Self-isolation, WFH, PPE. Read more on the Inquirer.
