Vax is Oxford Word of the Year 2021

• Vax is the 2021 Word of the Year of Oxford English dictionary. The word Vax was chosen as it is a particularly striking term to sum up the year 2021.

• Lexicographers had dug into the English language corpus data to come up with vax as the Oxford word of the year 2021. 

• Oxford said in a statement that although the word Vax dates back to the 1990s, it was a relatively rare word in the corpus data until this year when it shot up in frequency.