Was nice to see this pop up in one of my social media feeds today – one of my favourite classmates in library school (and a real life rock star librarian!) doing a digital program (and I’ll likely do a longer post at some point about the library’s role and response in the COVID era but am still thinking about it a lot).
Pretend this is one of those Facebook quizzes and put a checkmark besides any words/phrases you didn’t know (or think about regularly) *before* a month ago when the Coronavirus began to expand and grow our language…
Six Feet (minor quibble – the Prime Minister and others regularly say “two metres” which is appropriate as a metric-based country. But I wish they’d say “six feet or two metres” sort of like how they’ll repeat the same message in English and French!)
Slow The Spread/Stop The Spread
Social Distancing
Sourdough
Spanish Flu
Speak Moistley
Statistically Significant
Stay at Home Order
Super Spreader
Telework (or “WFH – Work From Home”)
Temperature Check
The Name of Every Chief Medical Officer in the Country
