‘SELFIE’ – POPULAR WORD IN 2013

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‘Selfie’ is the best word for 2013, an official said in London. This is due to the use of the word is reaching more than 17,000 percent over the past 12 months, according to the Oxford Dictionaries that publish ‘Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

Selfie mean self taken pictures using a mobile phone or webcam and uploaded to the website. In 2013, this word limelight after been many times by social media users.

Oxford Dictionaries Editorial Director, Judy Pearsall said their language research program has collects 150 million words been used per month. “We can see the use of the word ‘selfie’ increased during this year and help to be the selected word in 2013,” he said to AFP.

Time for a selfie: Lisa Surihani (seen here with husband Yusry Abdul Halim) is Malaysia’s Internet queen with 1.6 million Twitter followers. Lisa Surihani and her husband is one of the popular artists who often uploaded selfie pictures.
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The earliest use of the word ‘selfie’ has been detected in Australia in a forum in September 2002.

Pearsall said: “Social media sites help popularize the word ‘hashtag selfie’ (# selfie) that appeared on Flickr as early as 2004 but it was only widespread in 2012 when the media widely use it.

Other words in the word list for this year is ‘bedroom tax’ (referring to the British welfare policy changes); ‘binge-watch’ (meaning to watch some television episodes at once); Bitcoin (digital currency); olinguito (mammals in South America language ; schmeat (synthetic meat) and showrooming (watch attractions in online stores) and twerk.

“Twerk was mentioned in early 1990s that refers to the music scene in New Orleans,” said Oxford Dictionaries.

 

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