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'Selfie' beats bitcoins, lab meat, twerking and a tiny mammal for word of the year
The good news: we're apparently a little less obsessed with acronyms
than we have been in past years. The bad news? It seems we're still
addicted to taking photographs in bathroom mirrors for posting on social
networks. According to the Oxford Dictionary, use of the word "selfie"
has increased by leaps and bounds over the past year, up some
12,000-percent. That's enough to earn it the honor of becoming the
academic reference book's word of the year. And, this being the Oxford
Dictionary, there's naturally a nice etymology involved, tracing the
word's usage to a self-reportedly drunken poster on an Australian
messageboard who smashed their lip on a flight of stairs. So...congrats?
Also on the shortlist: binge-watch, bitcoin, schmeat (synthetic meat,
naturally), showrooming, twerk and olinguito, an adorable raccoon
relative from Colombia. Don't worry, you're all winners in our book
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