On everyone’s lips, but absent from the lexicon, the word “déconfinement” finally makes his entry in the oxford dictionary next to words less satisfactory as ” covid “.
” Sometimes, everything goes wrong, and words that we hadn’t necessarily seen coming are needed massively in current use. This is what happens with the words ‘covid’, ‘déconfinement’ (…) ‘telecommuting’, or ‘teleconsultation’, passed into everyday use with the same bluntness and the same speed as the pandemic that we face, ” explained Thursday, the editors of the Petit Robert, in presenting the edition 2021 of their dictionary.
