(Montreal) The term “vaccine passport” made a spectacular entry into the vocabulary of Quebecers in 2021, so much so that the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) chose it in its list of the twelve terms of the year. .
Unsurprisingly in this year of the pandemic, terms related to the field of medicine and IT occupy a prominent place there, as in 2020.
In the field of medicine and virology, the OQLF noted that the terms “messenger RNA vaccine” and “variant” have established themselves in usage.
The other terms chosen by the OQLF are: “defossilization”, “metaverse”, “clouding”, “screen sharing”, “ready-to-cook meal”, “real estate bidding”, “garden trend”, “tourism spatial ”and“ work in hybrid mode ”.
The terms for 2020 were: “local purchase”, “bubble”, “mental load”, “online ordering”, “COVID-19”, “physical distancing”, “docurality”, “carbon footprint”, “teaching at distance ”,“ new space age ”,“ teleworking ”and“ burst viewing ”.