A wappie is “a person who has a different view of the facts, for example when it comes to pandemic policy, and who is therefore sometimes considered strange.” These people often use wappie as a nickname themselves. According to the members, the word best characterizes the year 2021: it is a reflection of the far-reaching corona policy and the criticism of it.
Snotbel protocol (policy that determines which cold complaints small children can go to school with) came in second place and pandemic (the pandemic tired; state of mind that can overwhelm you after almost two years of corona and corona measures).
The ten nominated words were boosting, flash delivery, oat milk elite, pop urge, pandemic, snot bubble protocol, vaccination location, wappie, living gap and self-test. Our Language has 22,000 members. 15% of them cast their vote.
Last Tuesday, on the basis of an online poll, the Dikke van Dale proclaimed ‘prick regret’ as the word of the year 2021. That is the regret that someone has about the fact that he has been vaccinated, even though corona minister Hugo de Jonge gave the same advice. week took a different turn – he suggested that people also feel regret who have not been vaccinated. “If you’re on the ICU because you didn’t take a shot. Then you will regret it,” he wrote on Twitter.