2020 has been such a strange year, and the words we use are even stranger
Dec 05, 2020
2 minutes
TANYA WATERWORTH tanya.waterworth@inl.co.za
FOR the first time in history, Oxford Languages has chosen more than one Word of the Year in what its linguists have described as an “unprecedented” year.
Each November, Oxford Languages choose a word or phrase which has dominated in the news and social media sites.
While the words last year were “climate emergency”, and “toxic” took
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