Here we go again.................................word of the year:
British
Prime Minister David Cameron takes a selfie with with Olympic volunteer Anita
Akuwudike in London in August 2012
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"Selfie"
has been named as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. Its frequency
in the English language had increased by 17,000% in the last year, researchers
said.
According to Judy Pearsall,
Editorial Director, “Using the Oxford
Dictionaries language research programme, which collects around 150 million
words of current English in use each month, we can see a phenomenal upward trend
in the use of selfie in 2013, and this helped to cement its selection.”
Selfie – “a
photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone
or webcam and uploaded to a social media website”, has been announced as the
word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
editors.
The word has produced an array of
spinoffs, including helfie (hairstyle self), belfie (bum selfie), welfie
(workout selfie), drelfie (drunken selfie), and bookshelfie – a snap taken for
the purposes of literary self-promotion.
Words also making this year’s shortlist are;• bedroom tax • binge-watch (is the practice of watching television for longer time spans than usual, usually of a single television show) bitcoin (a digital currency in which transactions can be performed without the need for a central bank) • twerk (dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance)
