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<div>A portrait of the selfie:</div>
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<div>Oxford Dictionaries has picked <i>selfie </i>as its 2013 Word of the Year (WOTY). Announcing your word of the year in mid-November guarantees a lot of attention from journalists and late-night TV comics, but it also suggests that not much is going to happen,
linguistically, in the six weeks that remain in 2013. The <a href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/86413?displayType=month&displayMonth=201212">
Web of Language</a> won’t make its annual WOTY pick until mid-December, and the <a href="http://www.americandialect.org/woty">
American Dialect Society</a> makes its announcement in early January. Nevertheless, judging from the attention it has gotten,
<i>selfie </i>seems a good choice.</div>
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<div>Read the whole post at the Web of Language: <a href="http://bit.ly/weblan">http://bit.ly/weblan</a></div>
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