Merriam-Webster Names ‘Pandemic’ Word of the Year.
The dictionary publisher announced its 2020 word of the year on Monday.
Often the big news story has a technical word that's associated with it and in this case, the word pandemic is not just technical but has become general.
, Merriam-Webster Editor at Large Peter Sokolowski, via ‘The Associated Press’.
Searches for the word spiked in March when the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.
Coronavirus, quarantine, mamba and malarkey were among the runners up based on the site’s search spikes.
COVID-19 was also added to the site’s entries within a month after being coined in February
