Scientists of the Institute of Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences amounted to the “Dictionary of the Russian Coronavirus Epoch”. This is reported on the website of the Institute.
The dictionary included about 3,500 words, values and expressions that appeared or were updated in Russian during a pandemic. For example, here you can meet such words as “zoom”, “Removenka”, “Cowid Passport”, “Anti-making” and “Bliz”.
“Language situation caused by a pandemic – a rare case in the history of the Russian language, when for a very short period, the huge number of new words and the changed consumption of words already existing in the language, activated word-forming models, these or other active formulas of the language game allow capture the moment of language
Development in its very concentrated form, “- the vocabulary preface.
In the publication, it is noted that “the aim of the authors of the dictionary was the inclusion of as many words found as possible in the media.”
Earlier it was reported that the American dictionary of English Merriam-Webster chose a “Pandemic” by the main word 2020.