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		</div><p>Dictionary.com has declared “pandemic” its 2020 word of the year.</p>
<p>Senior research editor John Kelly said that searches for the word spiked more than 13,500% on March 11 when compared with 2019.</p>
<p>March 11 was the day that the World Health Organisation declared the health emergency over the coronavirus global pandemic.</p>
<p>Parents had to sit their children down to explain the word at the start of 2020 as related terms usually restricted to medicine and science stormed into everyday chat.</p>
<p>Over time, people were pandemic baking, pandemic dating and rescuing pandemic puppies from shelters.</p>
<p>All of which led Dictionary.com to declare “pandemic” its word of the year.</p>
<p>Mr Kelly said the jump in searches for pandemic on March 11 was “massive”, adding: “But even more telling is how high it has sustained significant search volumes throughout the entire year. Month over month, it was over 1,000% higher than usual. For about half the year, it was in the top 10% of all our look-ups.”</p>
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<p>Another dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year.</p>
<p>Mr Kelly said pandemic beat routine searches usually intended to sort more mundane matters, such as the differences between “to, two and too”.</p>
<p>“That’s significant,” he emphasised. “It seems maybe a little bit obvious, and that’s fair to say, but think about life before the pandemic. Things like pandemic fashion would have made no sense. The pandemic as an event created a new language for a new normal.”</p>
<p>Asymptomatic, furlough, non-essential, hydroxychloroquine and a host of other pandemic-related words saw massive increases in searches as well.</p>
<p>A pandemic is defined by Dictionary.com as a disease “prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area”.</p>
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