Each year, lexicographers at Oxford Languages, the maker of the Oxford English Dictionary, choose a single word or phrase to define the past 12 months. In 2019, it was "climate emergency," and in 2018 ...

Many of the words of 2020 chosen by dictionary publishers were connected with the COVID-19 pandemic, but there was one unexpected, and unexpectedly adorable, winner. It was a tough year for many in ...