This is the Unword of the Year 2020: winner and overview

The word of the year traditionally has an opponent - last year was no exception on this point. Even more, there was a real novelty in the choice of the unword of the year 2020.

With signal effect: Due to the special circumstances, there were two unwords for 2020.

Special years require special measures. To 2020, this is probably clearly true, as is also evident in the unword of the year.

Unword of the year: 2020 in the double

Because correctly this time the plural is required:

• For 2020, two unwords were chosen.
• This was "Corona dictatorship" as well as "repatriation sponsorships".

As justification, the jury stated that, on the one hand, this pays tribute to the immense scope of the Corona crisis in the public discussion culture, but on the other hand, it should not be forgotten that there are other important issues.