2019 was “Climate Emergency”. 2018 was “Toxic”. 2017 was “Youthquake”. This year, given the “phenomenal breadth of language change and development in 2020”, Oxford Dictionaries were unable to sum the past 12 months with one single word. Instead, they’ve opted for several “Words of an Unprecedented Year”. “Unprecedented” itself is a word that has seen […]
30th November 2020