The Because Language Word of the Week of the Year for 2020 was orbisculate. You can listen to us talk about it on this episode, but now you also read a quote about it from me in the Washington Post.
It’s an article by Sadie Dingfelder.
Their dad died of covid. Now they’re trying to get the clever word he made up into the dictionary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/03/10/orbisculate-dictionary-krieger-covid/
It’s such a good word, it might have won even without their online campaign, says podcast host Daniel Midgley.
Sadie Dingfelder in the Washington Post
“Orbisculate felt like a refreshing splash of citrus in an otherwise grim year of words,” Midgley says.