On the other hand, with 2½ years’ perspective, maybe some should have been a little more freaked out than they were. Maybe if editors had gone a little slower, they would have been thoughtful enough to lowercase covid-19, like every other disease, and not freak us out with screamy all-caps. Veja aqui Remedios Naturais, Remedios Naturais, sobre Synonyms for running fast. COVID-19 was added to the dictionary faster than any other word in history - though to be fair, it’s only in the internet age that dictionary updates have been published in semi-real time. Even editors took emergency measures in March 2020, with an unplanned update to the dictionary that included a host of pandemic-related terms. But the pandemic changed everything - including language. Among that list of words that Merriam-Webster added this month, several date back to the 19th century.

Linguists typically measure language change in decades, if not longer. Running with: as in beating the drum (for or about).

Language is changing really, really quickly Rather, this marks The Inquirer’s 100th grammar column, working hard to make language more precise and more concise since 2018. For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicated only by word order, by prepositions, and by the Saxon genitive. This week grammarians everywhere celebrate a milestone - no, not the collective addition of Galentine’s Day, adorkable, and pumpkin spice to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, which was just announced to the delight of Lifetime movie devotees everywhere.

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