Word! How Fast Coronavirus Spread
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MARCH 11, 2020
I think we have almost certainly just witnessed the fastest ever global adoption of a new word. And, maybe, the fastest diffusion of two words in the history of humanity. Perhaps the only thing to spread faster than the “coronavirus” is its new name, COVID-19. Words spread a lot like diseases — most of them never make it into the general lexicon. Few make it out of a group of people, much less achieve even colloquial or dialect status.
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