For two years, the world has been disturbed by Covid. As a result, many new words related to it came into play and dominated. This time the competition for Oxford ‘Word of the Year’ was between words related to Kovid.
There were also some absurd words in it. Eventually the shortened form of the vaccine ‘Vax’ became the Word of the Year, leaving behind ‘Jab’, ‘Shot’ and ‘Fasi Aussy’ (Fasci, the head of America’s COVID Agency).
Fianna Mapherson, senior editor at Oxford Languages, said all the words used for vaccines have increased in use, but not as waxes. It is small, attention-grabbing and punchy. It was used in all forms to form new words.
Last year, as soon as the Corona vaccine campaign started in different countries, the use of the word vaccine increased more than double. However, the use of wax increased 72 times in this September compared to last year. The Word of the Year is chosen on the basis of the proof of use of words from Oxford’s continuously updated 145 crore word body.
Evidence of use is collected from news sources in English-speaking countries. Oxford said, words like waxy, vaccinista, vaccination were also made due to wax, became less in trend and could not come in the dictionary.
VAX was used for the first time in 1980.
Vaccine is a popular English word. Wax was used for this for the first time in 1980. When British scientist Edward Jenner used vaccines against smallpox, the word vaccine was first recorded in the English language in 1799.
