‘Vax’ is Oxford English Dictionary’s 2021 word of the year

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That pretty much sums up 2021.

In 2021, the words related to vaccines spiked in frequency due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed, and anti-vaxxer all seeing a surge in use, reported BBC.

“It goes back at least to the 1980s, but according to our corpus it was rarely used until this year,” she said. The most common form of the spelling ‘vax’ is with a single ‘x’. Although both vax and vaxx are accepted. The report said that the usage of the word ‘pandemic’ has also been increased by more than 57,000 percent this year.

 

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