Oxford Languages has declared 'vax' its Word of the Year for 2021. In announcing the publication of its latest language report, titled ‘VAX’, A report into the language of vaccines, Oxford Languages said: "the word vax, more than any other, has injected itself into the bloodstream of the English language in 2021". "A relatively rare word in our corpus until this year, by September it was over 72 times more frequent than at the same time last year," the organisation said. "It has generated numerous derivatives that we are now seeing in a wide range of informal contexts, from vax sites and vax cards to getting vaxxed and being fully vaxxed, no word better captures the atmosphere of the past year than vax." It comes after last year's report