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Why We've Created New Language for Coronavirus
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Why We've Created New Language for Coronavirus
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Language is ever evolving, and an event such as the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly led to new words and phrases in the English language and to new definitions for existing words and phrases. It remains to be seen which words that were coined during the pandemic will survive long-term and which ones will remain in a dictionary rather than in regular usage. This article, describing the English language from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), describes changes in British, Indian, Canadian, and Australian English during these pandemic times. It discusses the speed of the linguistic change brought about by the pandemic and the coining of new words and phrases and new definitions of existing words and phrases.
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news article
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BBC
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
07/22/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/30/2021
08/02/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
05/24/2020
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This item was submitted on July 22, 2021 by Sharon Hunt using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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