Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com both just announced their pick for Word of the Year for 2020. They made it easy on us by both picking the same word… and also the most obvious word.
The pick from both dictionaries is, “pandemic!”
Some of Merriam-Webster’s runners-up are coronavirus, mamba (which was Kobe Bryant‘s nickname), kraken, asymptomatic and malarkey.
Some of Dictionary.com’s runners-up are quarantine, social distancing, conspiracy theory, doomscrolling, superspreader and Karen.
