‘Forget coronavirus,’ said my husband, ‘the word of the year is strange.’ The strange thing is he’s right.
This wasn’t determined by online polls or fixed by dictionaries. It emerged spontaneously and distinctly when the lockdowns got going. About lockdown I am still not quite happy. The word seems a little extreme for the episodes so far.
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