COVID-19 related words and phrases used in Thai Newspapers
Sita Yiemkuntitavorn
Introduction
After The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, our lives have never be the same. We learn the COVID-19 information and new data every single day from my sources ranging from international sources to domestic sources. While we are living in a new normal way of lives, the only thing that has been developing every second is the Type of COVID-19-- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omicron. Besides there are words which have been used a lot during the pandemic. In Thailand, there are many different technical and legal terms that have been utilized in official governmental guidance, media reports, and throughout the general public with respect to the 2019-nCoV (2019 Novel Coronavirus) and the resulting COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). As an English teacher, I would like to record the data collection of English loanwords related to COVID-19 from news headline in newspaper online. They will be classified into 4 categories: 1) Medical term, 2) Social & Government term, 3) Healthcare facility term and 4) Acronym then presented and explained in tables as follows: (รายละเอียดคลิ๊กที่ไฟล์แนบด้านล่าง)
