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The New York Times reports:
Apologies to jab, shot and “Fauci ouchie.” Oxford Languages’s 2021 Word of the Year is “vax.” That may seem like a no-brainer. But as with so much about public health, the power lies in the numbers.
“Vaccine,” already a common-enough word in English, more than doubled in frequency over the past year, as vaccines against the coronavirus rolled out.
But the jaunty “vax” — a word that has skulked around the margins of the language since it first appeared in the 1980s — surged dramatically, occurring more than 72 times as frequently in September 2021 as a year earlier.
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“Vaccine” was already a common-enough word in English. But the jaunty “vax” — a word that has skulked around the margins of the language since it first appeared in the 1980s — surged dramatically in 2021.
It is Oxford Languages’ word of the year. https://t.co/VKdl0iKBTl pic.twitter.com/O7d4pY7olm
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 31, 2021
Sorry, “Fauci ouchie” and “jab.” Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year is plain-vanilla “vax.”
It’s a word that didn’t exist until the 1980s, tho anti-vax (spelled “anti-vacks”) goes back at least to 1812, go figure ?
https://t.co/APlEEWoTRE— Jennifer Schuessler (@jennyschuessler) October 31, 2021
Based on the analysis of lexical data over the past year, today, Oxford Languages reveal the 2021 Word of the Year: Vax. Find out more about why this word was chosen: https://t.co/hkondFRDir #WOTY2021 pic.twitter.com/FstI68PKUp
— Oxford University Press (@OxUniPress) November 1, 2021
‘Vax’ declared Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year https://t.co/IbVam724Pm
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 1, 2021