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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

The pandemic has transformed lives and livelihoods,

but it's changed the little details too, like the language we use.

Peppering our everyday speech with scientific terms,

like social distancing, super spreader, and asymptomatic.

Yeah, I mean, we've all had to become, you know,

amateur epidemiologists, I suppose, and familiarize ourselves with these terms that, you know,

normally you would expect us to be in some journal article somewhere. Ben Zimmer is a linguist

and language columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He says a lot of the words that

came up fresh to many people in 2020 had existed in scholarly literature for decades.

So, for instance, contact tracing is actually attested from 1910. There's an example from an Australian

medical journal talking about school epidemics back in 1910,

and they're talking about contact tracing as something that the school nurse would need to do

to figure out who had been infected.

And the term quarantine, which derives from a Renaissance era, Italian word, meaning a 40-day waiting

period for ships arriving

from plague-stricken ports, dates back centuries. But it took on new life during the pandemic.

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