At least it’s not twerk, right?
Selfie edged out twerk as the Oxford Dictionaries international word of the year and this is where we are as a society right now.
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Selfie meets the criteria of having “cultural significance” and reflecting “the ethos, mood or preoccupations of that particular year.”
"Using the Oxford Dictionaries language research program, 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."
