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In Australian English, corona is being clipped to 'rona. That's what Aussies do...</div>
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Tony Thorne (London) has an almost encyclopaedic overview of corona terminology on his website:</div>
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The second part of my Lockdown Lexicon, Covidictionary, Glossary of Coronacoinages. In trying to make sense of our new circumstances, under lockdown, in social isolation or distancing, we must come to terms with an array of new language, some of it unfamiliar
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mostly from English.</div>
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There is also a less serious Covidictionary here:</div>
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<a href="http://www.lingoblog.dk/en/covidictionary-your-go-to-dictionary-in-times-of-coronavirus-and-covid-19/" id="LPlnk367323">http://www.lingoblog.dk/en/covidictionary-your-go-to-dictionary-in-times-of-coronavirus-and-covid-19/</a><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>Fra:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> på vegne af Natalia Levshina <natalevs@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 2. maj 2020 12:47<br>
<b>Til:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf</font>
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<div>I'm writing an informal blog post about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on language, with a focus on Zipf's correlation between frequency and word/expression length. For example, the clipping
<i>corona (</i>from<i> coronavirus) </i>is becoming increasingly popular in English: <a href="https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/">https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/</a> </div>
<div>I also have some data from Dutch, German, Russian and Polish. I'm wondering how other languages behave in that respect. In particular,</div>
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<div>1) Is there a shorter form for coronavirus, like <i>corona</i>? Can it only refer to the virus, or also to the pandemic and the disease?</div>
<div>2) If there is such a form, is it used widely or occasionally (e.g. humorously/creatively/in quotes)? For example, in Russian
<i>koronavirus</i> is the preferred form because <i>korona</i> means 'a crown'. There's an untranslatable Russian joke, <i><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prince Charles finally got a crown (korona), but it
was the wrong one.</span></i></div>
<div>3) Is there a popular everyday (i.e. non-astronomic) meaning of the word that corresponds to corona in that language (e.g. a crown, like in Russian)?</div>
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4) Also, are there any other abbreviations or substitutions (e.g. the use of a shorter formally unrelated word, like
<i>car</i> instead of <i>automobile</i>) related to the pandemic you have observed?
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<div>I promise to post a summary if I get enough interesting data.</div>
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<div>Many thanks and stay corona(virus)-free!</div>
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<div>Natalia Levshina</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Natalia Levshina</font>
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