The Fluent Show

Words of the Year 2020

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There are two big types of news in this episode:

  1. Important celebrity word news from the worlds of Hilaria Baldwin and Wagatha Christie đŸ•”đŸŒ
  2. Important annual word news from the Word of the Year committees around the world

    3. It's a bumper episode as Lindsay dropped in to discuss all those words that made our 2020, including

    • lockdown
    • coronavirus
    • rona / Miss Rona
    • BLM / Black Lives Matter
    • Samfundssind
    • PPE
    • Karen

      • AND MANY MORE!! 😄

      I have a bunch of small corrections from this episode:

      • I got the German gender letters wrong when talking about Gendersternchen and job applications, it’s not n for the 3rd option but d (to mean “divers”).
      • The French word "dĂ©confinement" isn't "confinement"or "lockdown" but the period after: the confinement is being "undone", usually in small steps, a de-lockdown, so to say (Merci to Ines)
      • TERF stands for trans exclusionary radical feminist, which makes way more sense than my guess "revolutionary" (Thanks to Ines)

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        Links:

        • Nyordslistan 2020 - Institutet för sprĂ„k och folkminnen
        • Årets ord og Ă„rets tegn 2020 — Dansk SprognĂŠvn
        • Koronaen er Ă„rets ord 2020
        • The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe (Main) by Alex Bellos | WHSmith
        • Collins - The Collins Word of the Year 2020 is...
        • Oxford Word of the Year 2020 | Oxford Languages
        • 'Iso' named Australia's 2020 word of the year, beating coronavirus-related terms 'bubble' and 'COVID normal' - ABC News
        • GfdS wĂ€hlt »Corona-Pandemie« zum Wort des Jahres 2020 | GfdS
        • Japan’s kanji of the year, ‘mitsu,’ reflects gloom of 2020 pandemic : The Asahi Shimbun
        • The Spanish Word of the Year 2020 - Yabla Spanish - Free Spanish Lessons
        • 17: Words of the Week of the Year 2020 – Because Language
        • 'Quarantine’ is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2020 - Language Magazine
        • â€ČLostâ€Č is Germanyâ€Čs 2020 youth word of the year | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 15.10.2020
        • Atlas: 100 Karten ĂŒber Sprache – KATAPULT-Verlag
        • Hilaria Baldwin Talks About Her Heritage, Spain, Boston, Alec and Instagram - The New York Times
        • Wagatha Christie: A uniquely British feud - BBC News
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