Oxford Dictionaries: 'Selfie' is word of the year

The publisher of the Oxford dictionaries said that "selfie" saw a huge jump in usage over the past year. This is reported to be as a result of Twitter and Instagram. Selfie is short for any self-taken photograph. Researches pick a prominent word each year that "reflects the mood of the times". Some other words chosen have been unfriend, credit crunch, carbon footprint, and Sudoku. Selfie appeared to be first used in 2002 as a part of an Australian online forum and now it is most commonly used with a #, to appear as #selfie. Oxford usually picks a separate word for the U.S. and the U.K. but this year selfie seems to be ubiquitous.

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