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Covid vocabulary

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mrshoho · 05/09/2020 16:08

Just thinking about this time last year I would never have needed to write or speak a sentence with the word 'furlough' in it. Was this word used readily in any sector pre covid? So many new phrases and words that we've seamlessly become familiar with.

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Jrobhatch29 · 05/09/2020 16:11

The words "lag", "unprecedented" and "novel" literally make me shudder now.

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mrshoho · 05/09/2020 16:18

Oh yes 'novel'. I would have just said new before Covid struck!

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Pertella · 05/09/2020 16:19

Exponential

OutOntheTilez · 05/09/2020 16:20

Commercials in the U.S. started using the line, "Now more than ever," as in "Home is important, now more than ever" or "You worry about your family, now more than ever." I kept a tally and counted 11 commercials doing this. It grates on my nerves.

BelfastSmile · 05/09/2020 16:20

"furlough" was used by missionaries. When they came back "home" for a few weeks from wherever they'd been living, it was referred to as being "on furlough".

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mrshoho · 05/09/2020 16:33

@BelfastSmile

"furlough" was used by missionaries. When they came back "home" for a few weeks from wherever they'd been living, it was referred to as being "on furlough".
At first when I heard it I thought it was connected to furlongs and horse racing!
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mrshoho · 05/09/2020 16:35

@OutOntheTilez

Commercials in the U.S. started using the line, "Now more than ever," as in "Home is important, now more than ever" or "You worry about your family, now more than ever." I kept a tally and counted 11 commercials doing this. It grates on my nerves.
Envy I don't think the UK went down that line thankfully.
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MarshaBradyo · 05/09/2020 16:37

Long covid is the newest one I can’t stand but all of them really

I saw a truck the other day with supply chain specialists on it and I’ll always associate supply chain with early pandemic

Jrobhatch29 · 05/09/2020 16:40

@Pertella

Exponential
Ah god yes, that's the worst one.
Redolent · 05/09/2020 16:45

Covidiot
Key worker
Non-essential shops
Local lockdown
Antigen / antibody
Quarantine
Nasal swab
Bubbles
Track and trace
“Crack on”
R rate

So many words and phrases that are forever associated with this mess!

mamamia2020 · 05/09/2020 17:23

Thrown under a bus.
I first heard the word 'Furlough' on 'Orange is the New Black' when the prisoners used to be allowed to go home for a few days Smile

Pertella · 05/09/2020 17:29

Ah god yes, that's the worst one.

Especially when 99% of the time its said in a really condescending way.

"You do understand exponential growth, dont you?"

Fuck the fuck off!

JayDot500 · 05/09/2020 17:30

Scamdemic/plandemic Grin

@mamamia2020 that's where I heard it too!

Jrobhatch29 · 05/09/2020 17:35

@Pertella

Ah god yes, that's the worst one.

Especially when 99% of the time its said in a really condescending way.

"You do understand exponential growth, dont you?"

Fuck the fuck off!

😂😂 Yes I can't bare it. It's the ultimate comeback atm!
KeepSmiling89 · 05/09/2020 17:38

Social distancing
Socially isolating
Shielding
2 metres!
Face masks

Just part of everyday living now!

KeepSmiling89 · 05/09/2020 17:39

Oh and working from home!
I know some people did this before but it was totally new to me. Saves me a LOT of money in fuel costs!

dementedma · 05/09/2020 17:54

"Crack on" isnt really covid related. Used a lot in my sector(military) before covid.
Social distancing
Flatten the curve
Hand sanitiser
R number

Ethelfleda · 05/09/2020 17:56

I’m sick of being told to ‘stay safe’

Ethelfleda · 05/09/2020 17:58

@OutOntheTilez

Commercials in the U.S. started using the line, "Now more than ever," as in "Home is important, now more than ever" or "You worry about your family, now more than ever." I kept a tally and counted 11 commercials doing this. It grates on my nerves.
Oh god this. The ads at the start of lockdown were nauseating.
HipTightOnions · 05/09/2020 18:03

(I use “exponential” all the time! - Maths teacher.)

I’d be happy never to hear “risk assessment” or “where possible” again.

BlusteryShowers · 05/09/2020 18:13

@OutOntheTilez

Commercials in the U.S. started using the line, "Now more than ever," as in "Home is important, now more than ever" or "You worry about your family, now more than ever." I kept a tally and counted 11 commercials doing this. It grates on my nerves.
"Now, more than ever" sets my teeth on edge now. Always said in a really earnest voice with someone gazing pathetically into the camera. Urgh.

All the businesses near me when they were closing for Covid used the expression "it is with a heavy heart..."

Key worker used to mean the adult who primarily looked after your child at nursery.

PPE in my school used to be an acronym for mock exams but I forget what it stands for.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 05/09/2020 18:27

Furlough is what they do to US government employees when the rebuplicans and democrats can’t agree on a budget.

Could quite happily never hear the word bubble again.

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mrshoho · 05/09/2020 18:31

Are all these new definitions going to be updated in the dictionary?

Bubble = A group of people who you can have close physical contact with.

I would have laughed if I had read that last year.

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mrshoho · 05/09/2020 18:35

Oh yes PPE. They are the pre public exams or mocks.

I work in a special school and we use gloves, aprons etc for personal care. They were always known as well erm gloves and aprons but now our SLT has renamed them PPE!

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2X4B523P · 05/09/2020 18:38

Don’t forget Covid secure.