<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve only come across “Miss Rhona” in the context of a thought experiment about how a cultural memory of the current pandemic might be preserved centuries from now in the form of a nursery rhyme (in the same way that “Ring Around the Rosies” is thought to preserve a cultural memory of the Black Death): <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/fwt85x/coronavirus_nursery_rhymes/" class="">https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/fwt85x/coronavirus_nursery_rhymes/</a>.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Siva</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 May 2020, at 10:02 am, Daniel W. Hieber <<a href="mailto:dwhieb@gmail.com" class="">dwhieb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The clipping<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">rona</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has been popular in younger circles, and interestingly has even been anthropomorphized as Miss Rona. A quick Twitter search yields some examples:</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=miss%20rona&src=typed_query" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://twitter.com/search?q=miss%20rona&src=typed_query</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I’ve noticed that this anthropomorphized use seems to be socially indexed to black, gay, and drag subcultures, as the Twitter examples evidence.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Daniel W. Hieber<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">University of California, Santa Barbara<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://danielhieber.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">danielhieber.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: none; padding: 0in;" class=""><b class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:bill.palmer@newcastle.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Bill Palmer</a><br class=""><b class="">Sent:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Monday, May 4, 2020 6:45 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:f.meakins@uq.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Felicity Meakins</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf</div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Ditto Felicity’s comment. I have never heard “rona”. And I’ve had plenty of opportunity – people talk of little else these days!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Best<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Bill<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Bill Palmer<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Endangered Languages Documentation,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""> Theory and Application Research Program<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""> The University of Newcastle<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Vice-President, Australian Linguistics Society<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Felicity Meakins<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, 5 May 2020 9:22 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">I must move in different circles in Oz. I haven’t heard the truncation “rona”. Even as a happy consumer of broadcast and social media!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Lingtyp <</span><a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">> on behalf of Peter Bakker <</span><a href="mailto:linpb@cc.au.dk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">linpb@cc.au.dk</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 9:18 pm<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Natalia Levshina <</span><a href="mailto:natalevs@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">natalevs@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">>, "</span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">" <</span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">In Australian English, corona is being clipped to 'rona. That's what Aussies do...<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Tony Thorne (London) has an almost encyclopaedic overview of corona terminology on his website:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguage-and-innovation.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5d7df842854143c0ba1608d7f0852e2e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637242327112028053&sdata=bgbYDoY21NeVoCfyZr2F3OhmJdVn%2BF%2F3e2KUho%2BEo9I%3D&reserved=0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">https://language-and-innovation.com</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly9sYW5ndWFnZS1hbmQtaW5ub3ZhdGlvbi5jb20v" style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; min-width: 424px;" class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 640px; border: 1pt solid rgb(200, 200, 200);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 9pt 27pt 9pt 9pt;" class=""><div id="LPImageContainer809859" style="margin-right: 9pt; overflow: hidden;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguage-and-innovation.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5d7df842854143c0ba1608d7f0852e2e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637242327112038040&sdata=a90swdCqVdpAOOAqQtdPK9T6gliTi37Ab29YfmKr%2By8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;" class=""><object border="0" width="162" height="161" id="_x0000_i1027" alt="Image removed by sender." style="width: 1.6822in; height: 1.677in;" class="" data="cid:~WRD0000.jpg" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment"></object></span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></td><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width: 357.515625px; border: none; padding: 9pt 27pt 9pt 9pt;" class=""><div id="LPTitle809859" style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-bottom: 9pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguage-and-innovation.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5d7df842854143c0ba1608d7f0852e2e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637242327112048037&sdata=zkJ2hjDQoF4S95ncYnnZkxFIaAITMBL4mq9AkqQXG0w%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" class="">tony thorne | language and innovation</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div id="LPDescription809859" style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-bottom: 9pt; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">The second part of my Lockdown Lexicon, Covidictionary, Glossary of Coronacoinages. 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Your go-to dictionary in times of Coronavirus and COVID-19 – Lingoblog</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div id="LPDescription577916" style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-bottom: 9pt; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class=""><a href="http://lingoblog.dk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Lingoblog.dk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>goes viral! Ideas worth spreading! Please send this link: all your isolated friends, relatives and colleagues who can be uplifted by some COVID-19 humor. COVIDictionary 20: your go-to …<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div id="LPMetadata577916" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lingoblog.dk%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5d7df842854143c0ba1608d7f0852e2e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637242327112088024&sdata=ee6cqj7CI1dYV%2BkZZxiuthSlUG%2FKBPcarMHXJtO3QJA%3D&reserved=0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">www.lingoblog.dk</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(166, 166, 166);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Peter Bakker<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span id="cid:image001.png@01D62246.7EEB6720"><65DEFB59D02A461596FEB5E00B9EF935.png></span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="" class="">Fra:</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lingtyp <</span><a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="" class="">> på vegne af Natalia Levshina <</span><a href="mailto:natalevs@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">natalevs@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="" class="">><br class=""><b class="">Sendt:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2. maj 2020 12:47<br class=""><b class="">Til:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><</span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" style="" class="">><br class=""><b class="">Emne:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf</span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Dear colleagues,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">corona (</i>from<i class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>coronavirus) </i>is becoming increasingly popular in English: </span><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.oed.com%2Fblog%2Fcorpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5d7df842854143c0ba1608d7f0852e2e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637242327112098013&sdata=OjZOcpfPoFMn8YeF4yYTs4NLclBclhYX%2BrajzPbDMeg%3D&reserved=0" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/</span></a><span lang="EN-AU" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">I also have some data from Dutch, German, Russian and Polish. I'm wondering how other languages behave in that respect. In particular,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">1) Is there a shorter form for coronavirus, like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">corona</i>? Can it only refer to the virus, or also to the pandemic and the disease?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">2) If there is such a form, is it used widely or occasionally (e.g. humorously/creatively/in quotes)? For example, in Russian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">koronavirus</i> is the preferred form because<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">korona</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>means 'a crown'. There's an untranslatable Russian joke, </span><i class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Prince Charles finally got a crown (korona), but it was the wrong one.</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">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)?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">4) Also, are there any other abbreviations or substitutions (e.g. the use of a shorter formally unrelated word, like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">car</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>instead of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">automobile</i>) related to the pandemic you have observed? <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">I promise to post a summary if I get enough interesting data.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Many thanks and stay corona(virus)-free!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Natalia Levshina<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Natalia Levshina</span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics</span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen</span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The Netherlands</span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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