Consider This Boston: Fast-Tracked Dictionary Updates Keep Pace With Our Pandemic Lives | Consider This - WBUR - Dictionary

"COVID-19" set the record for word coinage to inclusion in a dictionary in English: thirty-four days. Dictionaries also fast tracked words that were on their way to inclusion - like “super-spreader” and “self-quarantine.” And they updated a handful of definitions as well, including "bubble" and "lockdown." WBUR's Paris Alston asks GBH’s Edgar B. Herwick III to spell it out.

This segment airs on March 12, 2021. Audio will be available after the broadcast.