According to the Merriam-Webster company, the word “Vaccine” is the word for the current year that is about to end, due to the high hopes for vaccination in order to get out of the pandemic.
This word has been classified as the “word of the year”, based on accurate data, and due to its frequent use in research, studies and various discussions.
Peter Sokolovsky, an editor at Merriam-Webster, explains that the word vaccine is being circulated on two prominent levels; One is of a medical nature, and the other is from a cultural or “politicized” angle.
What is meant here is that the topic of the vaccine has become subject to discussion in terms of advantages, issues of immunity, antibodies and the degree of protection it gives, amid successive specialized academic studies.
At the same time, the vaccine continues to cause division around the world, given the suspicion and fear of many, especially among those who believe in the conspiracy theory and insist not to take the vaccine despite the recommendations of vaccination specialists, because this step is the only one capable of getting humanity out of the epidemic tunnel.
The choice of the “vaccine” comes as the “word of the year” in 2021, while the American company had chosen the “epidemic” year for 2020, which witnessed the transformation of the new Corona virus into a pandemic.
In addition, the famous “Oxford Dictionary” of the English language chose the word “Vax”, meaning pollination, the current “word of the year”.
The pandemic has greatly affected the lexicon we use, because our circumstances have changed, during the past two years, with more and more words that we did not know until recently.
Terms such as “quarantine”, “herd immunity” and “antibodies” have become widely circulated, while they were less known before the emergence of Corona.
The pandemic prompted people to learn more about the epidemic, so that they now know the stages of clinical trials, and what happens to the virus in terms of mutations and interactions with cells, and this transformation added many words to our daily conversations.
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