How the pandemic changed language: Wayne Grady

TELUS Talks with Tamara Taggart

As an award-winning writer and translator, Wayne Grady’s fascination with language encouraged him to document the words we all began to use during the pandemic and how they were changing the way we communicate. On this week’s episode, Wayne discusses his newest book Pandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality, and the new vocabulary that came with the COVID-19 pandemic.