Selfie is word of the year 2013

Oxford Dictionaries have announced 'selfie' as their International Word of the Year 2013
Research by Oxford Dictionaries editors has found that the word used to describe a photo a person has taken of themselves using a smartphone has increased 17,000% since last year.
The word 'selfie' first appeared in 2002.
'Social media sites helped to popularize the term, with the hashtag #selfie appearing on the photo-sharing website Flickr as early as 2004, but usage wasn’t widespread until around 2012, when selfie was being used commonly in mainstream media sources,' said Judy Pearsall, editorial director for Oxford Dictionaries.
The other shortlisted contenders for Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 were: bedroom tax; binge-watch; bitcoin; olinguito; schmeat; showrooming, and twerk.
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