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Any idea what some of the words of the year will be this year? I am thinking one may be selfie. I have to confess that I hadn't heard of the word before. I liked this article about President Obama's selfie.
 
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Oxford Dictionaries has already said that 'selfie' is their word of the year.

No doubt for the next few months we'll be seeing plenty more of these posts from other dictionaries and word-related sites. Yawn.


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Honest - I hadn't looked! Here is a Telegraph article about it.
 
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I like Geoffrey Nunberg's comment on selfie.
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Anyway, I give the critics a lot of the credit for making "selfie" a contender for word of the year. When we look back on 2013, we'll recall this not just as the year when everybody was posting pictures of themselves on social media, but as the year when nobody could stop talking about it.
 
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