And the 2014 Word of the Year Is…
Each year, logophiles everywhere anxiously await the day the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is announced.
Well, word lovers, today is your day. The Word of the Year is vape. Vape is a verb meaning “inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device,’’ according to Oxford’s official definition.
“As e-cigarettes (or e-cigs) have become much more common, so vape has grown significantly in popularity. You are thirty times more likely to come across the word vape than you were two years ago, and usage has more than doubled in the past year,’’ wrote Oxford Dictionaries on its official blog.
The 2013 Word of the Year was “selfie.’’ Oxford Dictionaries said they had been tracking the word for over a year and saw it increasingly become “common in mainstream media sources and it was chosen for inclusion in the August 2013 update of OxfordDictionaries.com.’’
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