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Selfie has been named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries editors, after the frequency of its usage increased by 17,000% over the past 12 months, The Guardian reports.
The OED explains that the term has been around since 2002, and its origins lie in social media, and photsharing sites like Flickr and MySpace. They also produced a sweet infographic.
Editorial director Judy Pearsall told the Guardian: "Using the Oxford Dictionaries language research programme, which collects around 150m 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."
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