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IT’S the year of Covid-19 so it comes as no surprise that “pandemic” is indeed the declared Word of the Year (WOTY) by two esteemed dictionary publishers.

This is the annual task of English language documenters at Oxford, Cambridge, Collins, dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster: To find that one word that had the greatest impact on the English-speaking world in a given year.

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