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Languages float around mouth-to-mouth. Any living language of the world is basically a mirror of the contemporary society. In course of time, old words get obsolete, and born are the new colloquial ones.
Following the dictates of time, the word that recurrently comes back to daily conversations, is awarded the 'Word of the Year' title by Oxford English Dictionary. 'Vax' has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
It would have been pretty difficult to get through 2021 without hearing the word "vax" at least once.
If last year was marked by the emergence of COVID-19 on a global scale, this one has been all about the new solution to end the pandemic: the vaccines.
That is why Oxford Languages, the creator of the 'Oxford English Dictionary', chose "vax" as its 2021 Word of the Year. "A relatively rare word in our corpus until this year, by September it was over 72 times more frequent than at the same time last year," Oxford said.
'Vax' can be either a noun or a verb, and it is spawned a litany of derivatives, including "vax sites," "vax cards" and "being fully vaxxed," according to Oxford.
Last year, Oxford said the pandemic and social unrest across the U.S. made it impossible for them to select just one word. Instead lexicographers highlighted a variety of terms including 'Black Lives Matter,' 'Blursday,' 'social distancing' and 'systemic racism.'
Prior 'Words of the Year' included 'climate emergency' (2019), 'toxic' (2018), 'youthquake' (2017) and 'post-truth' (2016).