Confinement: word of the year from the English dictionary 'Collins'

"

", the restriction measure adopted by many governments in the world to limit the spread of the

, has been chosen word of the year 2020 this Tuesday by the group that publishes the

English dictionary

.

"

" (confinement, in Spanish) appears in a list of other ten words - several of them related to the

- established by the lexicographers of Collins, who study the evolution of the English language.

Collins has recorded more than 250,000 uses of the word confinement in 2020, up from just 4,000 the year before.

"Language reflects the world around us and 2020 has been dominated by the global pandemic," said

, Collins' language content consultant, in a statement.

"We have chosen '

' as the word of the year because it sums up the experience shared by billions of people who had to restrict their daily lives to stop the virus," he added.

Second confinement

In the

, the country most mourned by the pandemic in Europe with more than 49,000 deaths, the inhabitants of England have been confined again since November 5, for a month, after having lived a first confinement decreed at the end of March.

The list includes other terms associated with the pandemic such as the foreseeable "

", as well as "

" ("social distancing"), "

" (the fact of self-isolation if you have or are afraid of having

) , "

" (essential worker) and "

" (the British ERTE).

Also highlighted is the abbreviation "

", which indicates another event of the year, the demonstrations of the American movement "

" (Black lives matter) in the wake of the death of

, a black American suffocated below the knee of a white cop in

in late May.

Social networks, where new words often appear, have made it possible to include the terms "

" (user of the social network TikTok) and "

", a phenomenon originating in

that consists of recording himself gorging himself at the same time that you interact with your subscribers on social media.

The last entry on the list: "

", contraction of "

" and "

" (exit), an allusion to

to refer to the withdrawal of the British royal family of Prince

and his wife

, announced in January .

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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