Dhaka, June 30 -- These are abnormal times we are expected to refer to as the new normal. That is but one of the many changes the Covid-19 pandemic, or the coronavirus, has been inflicting on life all across the globe. With more than 10,000,000 people affected by the malady globally and with 500,000-plus deaths so far across vast swathes of the earth, perceptions of life have certainly been going through change of the kind one had never expected before.

And part of the change, in this new normal, has had to do with the sheer extent of the words and terms that have made their way into everyday language in the wake of the coronavirus. We are now familiar as never before with such advice as 'stay at home' and 'stay safe'. In the times befor...