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December 12, 2013, 20:58
Kalleh
Words of the year?
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.
December 13, 2013, 03:27
arnie
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.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
December 14, 2013, 21:35
Kalleh
Honest - I hadn't looked! Here is a Telegraph article about it.
December 19, 2013, 20:50
Kalleh
I like Geoffrey Nunberg's comment on selfie.
quote:
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.