How the AP Stylebook has kept up with the pandemic

"The pandemic gave us a new vocabulary to describe everyday life — Zoom, anyone? — and editors at the Associated Press Stylebook have been working to keep up," Angela Fu reports for The Poynter Institute.

"Pods, as in learning pods or social pods, get their own entry, and AP now recognizes that FaceTime, Skype and Zoom can be used as verbs (but does not recommend such usage)," Fu writes.

Of several major changes in the Stylebook's topical guide to the pandemic, "The one that has had the most revisions is the very first one, 'coronaviruses', Fu reports. “The coronavirus” is now an acceptable first reference "even though it incorrectly implies there is only one coronavirus," because we're a year into the pandemic, she notes.