Apologies to jab, shot and “Fauci ouchie.” Oxford Languages’s 2021 Word of the Year is “vax.” “Vaccine” was already a common-enough word in English. But the jaunty “vax” — a word that has skulked ...
"Vax" is Oxford Languages' word of the year. "Whether you are vaxxed, double-vaxxed, or unvaxxed, the language relating to vaccines and vaccination permeated all of our lives in 2021," said a report ...