The global pandemic has changed every aspect of our lives — how we work, how we socialize, how we dress. As 2020 comes to a close, many of us find ourselves fluent in a new language that would have been nearly indecipherable just one year ago. Of course, it wasn’t just the pandemic that affected language in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first health crisis to leave its stamp on popular vocabulary. “‘Covid’ has changed our lives, and that one word captures more than just the virus.”There was a runoff and “Covid” (minus the “19") won.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 28, 2020 13:03 UTC