HEAR ye, Hear ye! Here’s a language alert! Look what Queen Corona dragged in along with her long, trailing train — a vocabulary bundle of now “trending words”. Trending, because these words have a great and unavoidable worldwide presence — on social media, in news casting, and in newspapers.
Being an avid newspaper reader and a diehard Newspaper-in-Education (NiE) practitioner, I seized the opportunity to scour the pages of mainly the March 19 and 20 editions and came up with this cherry-picked list of words that are on everyone’s lips. Be sure to keep adding to the list and create for yourself a bank book of coronovirus or Covid-19 related words.
