Interestingly, at least I think so, lexicographers at Oxford English Dictionary have chosen their 2021 Word of the Year. It’s “vax.” Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, variations on words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency this year, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and anti-vaxxer all seeing a surge. Vax was the obvious choice, since it has made “the most striking impact,” said Fiona McPherson, senior editor of OED, the definitive record of the English language, in a recent BBC interview. “It goes back at least to the 1980s, but according to our corpus, it was rarely used until this year,” she added. I love how those sneaky-smart Britons slip a Latin word such as “corpus” into an everyday sentence…