And the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Is ... 'Selfie'

Oxford Dictionaries announced "Selfie" as the international Word of the Year 2013, noting its frequency in the English language has increased by 17,000% since last year

According to Oxford Dictionaries, the word "selfie" first appeared in 2002, when it was used in an Australian online forum. It was popularized by social media during the years (it was used as a hashtag on Flickr in 2004), but it became widely adopted around 2012, when it started commonly being used in mainstream media

To confirm this, we've browsed through the Mashable archive, and found several instances of the word in articles from 2012 Read more...