STOCKHOLM—Lauding the man as one of the greatest minds working in medicine today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences reportedly awarded 54-year-old Facebook user Darren Weston the Nobel Prize Monday for his own extensive internet research into the dangers of Covid vaccinations. “We are proud to announce that the…
Totally unrelated: why do news websites (and The Onion) write “Covid” instead of COVID or COVID-19? I thought it was an acronym.
It’s not really an acronym, just an abbreviation. “Coronavirus disease” is only two words. You could write CoviD I guess, but that looks dumb.
I’d think that it isn’t a proper noun and shouldn’t be capitalized at all, but maybe that’s why they’re the professionals and I’m just some guy on the internet.
Somehow an attempt to be correct ends up looking like mockery
“I have Covid”
SpongeBob with hands on hips: “I hAvE CoViD”
You’re right but I still don’t like it. Though I think it would be like CoViD (which looks dumb too).
It’s one of those things where it has become a word in and of itself because so many people use it that way