Open AccessDefining Illness, Impediment, and Inspiration
Author(s) -
Adrija Ghosh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1749-9771
DOI - 10.2218/forum.31.5499
Subject(s) - word (group theory) , pandemic , covid-19 , history , psychology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In 2020, Merriam-Webster declared ‘pandemic’ as their Word of the Year, claiming in a press release that “sometimes a single word defines an era”.