{"title":"Thirty-Four Days: Inside Merriam-Webster’s Emergency Coronavirus Update","authors":"Stefan Fatsis","doi":"10.1353/dic.2021.0018","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In early January 2020, news stories began appearing about a new respiratory illness. By February 11th, the disease had a name: COVID-19. The staff at Merriam-Webster took unprecedented measures to respond to this unprecedented news. The previous record-holder for fastest coinage-to-entry, AIDS, had taken two years to appear in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. At 34 days, the COVID-19 entry smashed that record, illustrating the urgency of the situation, the fitness of the resources available to modern lexicography, and the essential value of dictionaries to public life.","PeriodicalId":35106,"journal":{"name":"Dictionaries","volume":"42 1","pages":"45 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dictionaries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2021.0018","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:In early January 2020, news stories began appearing about a new respiratory illness. By February 11th, the disease had a name: COVID-19. The staff at Merriam-Webster took unprecedented measures to respond to this unprecedented news. The previous record-holder for fastest coinage-to-entry, AIDS, had taken two years to appear in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. At 34 days, the COVID-19 entry smashed that record, illustrating the urgency of the situation, the fitness of the resources available to modern lexicography, and the essential value of dictionaries to public life.
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