Saturday, March 6, 2021

Pandemic Inspires More Than 1,200 New German Words

A woman walks past a closed flower shop in Berlin on Thursday. A research group noted more than 1,200 new words in German inspired by the pandemic.

Germans have a knack for stringing lots of words together to create new words. From Mundschutzmode to Coronamutationsgebiet, the pandemic has spawned a plethora of them.

(Image credit: Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images)

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