According to the Oxford Dictionary, the Best Word of 2020 is: 16 (or more) words!
I bet if you were like me you'd have thought the word would be Covid or Coronavirus. But the Oxford people did not feel 2020 was easy to put into words and not just one word could possibly describe this year. So they made a list of 16 words to mark this year in order to reflect it.
Number 1 is Bushfire since the year began with the worst fires in Australian history.
2. Impeachment
3. Acquittal
4. Coronavirus
5. Covid-19
6. Lockdown
7. Social Distancing (two words)
8. Reopening
9. Black Lives Matter (three words)
10. Cancel Culture (2 again)
11. BIPOC (I had no idea what this was, it is: Black, indigenous, and other people of color.
12. Mail-in
13. Belarusian Again, I have no clue. It seems the re-election of the Belarusian President caused an uprising
14. Moonshot (mass covid testing program)
15. Superspreader
16. Net Zero (not a soda, but something about China and carbon neutral)
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