Words of the Year 2020

The Fluent Show

There are two big types of news in this episode:

1. Important celebrity word news from the worlds of Hilaria Baldwin and Wagatha Christie 🕵🏼
2. Important annual word news from the Word of the Year committees around the world

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 "déconfinement" 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 språk och folkminnen
• Årets ord og årets tegn 2020 — Dansk Sprognævn
• Koronaen er årets 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 wählt »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
• ′Lost′ is Germany′s 2020 youth word of the year | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 15.10.2020
• Atlas: 100 Karten über 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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