Alison Flood writing for The Guardian:
"With terms such as WFH, social distancing and self-isolation now in common parlance, the Oxford English Dictionary has made an extraordinary update to include Covid-19 and words related to the pandemic in its definitive record of the English language."
It is a rare incidence when lexicographers observe such a dominance of a single word in the global discourse. In January 2020, most popular keywords online mainly related to naming and describing coronavirus. Over time, keywords that rose to the top included "social distancing", "work from home", and "PPE".
Read more on The Guardian.
