Selfie is the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year, Here Are Tips on How to Take One
Photographers and artists have been making self portraits or ages, so what’s the big deal with selfies? According to Judy Pearsall, Editorial Director for Oxford Dictionaries, “Using the Oxford Dictionaries language research programme, which collects around 150 million words of current English in use each month, we can see a phenomenal upward trend in the use of selfie in 2013, and this helped to cement its selection as Word of the Year.”
selfienoun, informal
(also selfy; plural selfies)a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website
Oxford’s wordsmiths have traced the origins of the word back to an Australian online forum, where it has since gained global momentum through social media.
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