Oxford Dictionary announces 'words of the year'; says 2020 'cannot be accommodated in single word'

Oxford English Dictionary announced on Monday for the first time that it has chosen not to name one single word of the year, but many words for the "unprecedented" year 2020. Describing 2020 as "a year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one single word," OED said that there were too many words to sum up the events of 2020, the Xinhua news agency reported. But by April this year, it had become "one of the most frequently used nouns in the English language, exceeding even the usage of the word time." "It's both unprecedented and a little ironic -- in a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other," Grathwohl added.