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  • New official name for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

    Spotted in the WHO twitter feed.

    "We now have a name for the #2019nCoV disease:

    COVID-19.

    I’ll spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine – COVID-19""

    February 12, 2020

  • Spotted on the Colbert Report that in French, COVID-19 is feminine.

    While coronavirus is masculine. (Collins Dictionary)

    I suspect that one rule of linguistics is that languages are not required to logical.

    May 13, 2020

  • Sometimes not even required to grammatical.

    May 13, 2020

  • Stats

    ‘COVID-19’ is no one's favorite word yet...

    May 13, 2020

  • Who's gonna make the Unloved Pandemics list?

    May 13, 2020

  • I'd have to say that WuFlu is even more unloved than COVID-19 due to its racist tones. (listed Jan 24)

    May 14, 2020

  • ARE YOU THINKING WHAT I'M THINKING?! Let's take a pinch of everything that's listed here under Reverse Dictionary, mix it all up, and we'll have a cure.

    I know how to science.

    June 3, 2020

  • Worried about where to get enough middling plantation though.

    June 3, 2020

  • On the other hand, going to get some revenge should be quite fun.

    June 3, 2020