Following up on the existential linguistic crisis of 2019, Dictionary.com has awarded their "Word of the Year" distinction to "pandemic." The website tends to favor a descriptivist, rather than prescriptive, approach to language (which is the correct way to do it), and while their announcement of this news acknowledges that a whole lot of other shit happened in 2020, none of those other things had as big of an impact on language as "pandemic." — Read the rest
