The Words of the Year 2021 were selected in a competition organized by the Institute of Polish Language of the University of Warsaw (UW) and the Polish Language Foundation.\u00a0The winning words were picked in two ways –\u00a0they were chosen separately by3.3 thousand Internet users and the linguists.\u00a0 The words of the Year 2021 are “vaccination” and “border”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
The first place in the Internet voting was taken by the word\u00a0“vaccination”, indicated by over 15% of voters.\u00a0The second place was taken by\u00a0“virtue”\u00a0(women\u2019s) with nearly 13%\u00a0indications,\u00a0and the third word was an adjective\u00a0“remote”\u00a0(work, teaching) with 11% of votes.<\/p>\n
The jury of linguists from the University of Warsaw and other Polish universities selected in this competition two words:\u00a0“border” and “vaccination” like Internet users.<\/p>\n
“Vaccination” has been the word of the year 2021 in many countries.\u00a0In Poland it is coined from the “horticultural” verb “to vaccinate e.g. bushes”.\u00a0Just as specialists give a person a small dose of germs to protect him from disease, so have they been transferring the shoot of one plant to another for centuries to obtain a better and healthier variety.\u00a0Poles call both procedures\u00a0vaccination\u00a0in Polish.\u00a0Whereas the noun “strain” (a vaccinating part of plant)\u00a0originally meant a refined tree, only later “tribe”\u00a0\u2013 said Prof.\u00a0Magdalena Derwojedowa, a linguist from the University of Warsaw, who commented on the results of the competition.<\/p>\n
The second word “border” was explained by Prof.\u00a0Marek \u0141azi\u0144ski from the University of Warsaw.\u00a0The \u201cborder\u201d\u00a0was already the word of September 2015, the year in which the noun “refugee” became the word of the year.\u00a0At that time, it was about the borders of southern Europe, in 2021 it was about the Polish-Belarusian border.\u00a0The word “border”\u00a0until recently associated with any area, with\u00a0crossing, closing\u00a0and\u00a0opening\u00a0(in a pandemic), with a\u00a0passport\u00a0(also covid), today it is associated with the words “crisis, cross, illegally, migrant, state of emergency, barbed wire, wall, defense, provocation “- said Prof.\u00a0\u0141azi\u0144ski.<\/p>\n
Adrian Andrzejewski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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