Could just one word change your life? Jon Gordon, author of the bestselling book “One Word That Will Change Your Life” thinks so. He found that when people simply focused on one word for the year ...

Merriam-Webster has deemed “pandemic” its word of the year for 2020. Merriam-Webster selected the word after conducting a statistical analysis of search traffic for words in its online dictionary.

Awhile back I mentioned that I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. By the time February ends — and sometimes before January ends — my resolutions have gone by the wayside. Choosing a special word each ...

If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. “That probably isn't a ...

Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its word of year. “That probably isn’t a big shock,” Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press. In its noun ...

The global pandemic has changed every aspect of our lives — how we work, how we socialize, how we dress. And without us even noticing, it also has changed how we talk. As 2020 comes to a close, many ...

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Ben Zimmer, a linguist and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, about the words of the year. And finally today, the coronavirus has affected nearly every aspect of our ...

As I try to sum up the year of 2020, I have four words that I have heard so much, that my right eye spasms every time I hear any one of them. I thought if I could use all four words in a sentence, it ...

Instead of crowning a single word as the winner, Oxford Languages looks at the pandemic’s swift and widespread impact on the English language. By Jennifer Schuessler Oxford Languages’s annual Word of ...

Have you forgotten to ‘unmute’ or been the victim of a ‘Zoombombing’? They are among the tech-related words of the year picked out by the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford Languages ...

Flexible, practical, simple, and something that makes money are words and comments made to describe the 2020 crop plan during our farm visits over the last couple months. Simple and practical are ...