'Selfie' is chosen as word of the year by the Oxford Dictionaries
'Selfie,' which was chosen for inclusion in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary this summer, was selected by the dictionary's publishers as the 2013 word of the year. 'Selfie' is a photo of a person snapped by themselves, usually using a cell phone.
'Selfie,' which was chosen for inclusion in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary this summer, was selected by the dictionary's publishers as the 2013 word of the year. 'Selfie' is a photo of a person snapped by themselves, usually using a cell phone.
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The publishers of the Oxford Dictionaries selected the term for a picture taken by a person of themselves, usually with a cell phone, as the word of the year.
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The use of the word has gone up by 17,000 percent since last fall, according to the Oxford Dictionaries.
According to the Oxford Dictionaries, the word was first used online in 2002 in an Australian Web forum, when someone wrote about a picture they had taken of themselves after falling down the stairs.
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The term was added to the online version of the Oxford Dictionaries this summer but has not yet been chosen for inclusion into the Oxford English Dictionary.