[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[Nancy Friedman]

"Wuhan flu," "WuFlu," and "Chinese coronavirus" are being used by
anti-immigrationists to score political points. I wrote about this
phenomenon for Medium.
https://medium.com/@wordworking/does-it-matter-what-we-call-a-disease-b324f9c86911?source=friends_link&sk=f6caf5edd5eaef0c42949ba82f0df503

I also compiled a bunch of the #coronacoinages (as Ben Zimmer calls them),
including coronacation, coronatunes, and coronapocalypse.
https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2020/03/words-of-the-week-coronacoinages.html
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:01 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Wuhan flu"
> IMHO, the catchiest (no pun intended) moniker is <(the) Wuhan flu>.
> (Something-OTY, fer shrrr.)
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