Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has brought many new words and phrases into everyday use. Some existed before but are used more now. Others have entered our vocabulary over the past couple of months.
- antibodies
- asymptomatic
- backlog (in statistics)
- Blursday (days blurring together during the pandemic)
- bubble (as a verb)
- contact tracing
- corona
- coronacation
- coronacoaster (see above)
- coronakilos (the weight you put on while staying at home)
- coronavirus
- coronials/covidials (those born during the pandemic)
- COVID-19
- covexit (exiting lockdown)
- covideo parties
- covidiot
- covidiotic
- disease carrier’s allowance
- doom scrolling
- essential workers
- flattening the curve
- furlough
- herd immunity
- hydroxychloroquine
- incubation period
- key workers
- Kudo (meeting programme)
- lag (in statistics and internet speed)
- lockdown
- lockdown levels
- maskne
- novel coronavirus
- pandemic
- partial lockdown
- patient zero
- Pfizer
- PPE
- quaranteen
- quaranteams
- quarantine
- reshoring
- reskilling
- respirators
- risk groups
- rona
- social distancing
- self-isolation
- Skype (as a verb)
- staycation
- stimulus cheque
- stockholding/warehousing
- stockpiling/hoarding
- superspreader
- Teams
- tiers
- temporary redundancy
- the front-line
- upskilling
- ventilators
- WFH
- Zoom
- zoombombing
- zumped ( being dumped via Zoom)
I love your blog post..it has been a year 2020…So many words to learn