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 ...

How has your 2020 been? There have surely been highs and lows for everyone, but one thing we've all shared is the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, now that it's time for popular dictionaries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some runners-up include coronavirus, malarkey, schadenfreude, icon and kraken. In what would have been unthinkable a year ago to what seems like a fairly obvious choice now, Merriam-Webster announced ...

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 ...