'SELFIE' BEATS 'TWERK' TO BE NAMED WORD OF YEAR BY OXFORD DICTIONARIES

'Selfie' may have been named Oxford Dictionary’s word of 2013, but its popularity just earned it another accolade - being voted the most annoying and overused term of the past 12 months.
It topped the list of words Lake Superior State University want to be banished in 2014.
Other words that made the cut include 'twerk' and 'hashtag'
Selfie – "a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website"
Editors from Oxford Dictionaries said selfie has evolved from a niche social media tag into a mainstream term for a self-portrait photograph.
Editorial director Judy Pearsall said: "Using the Oxford Dictionaries Language Research Programme, 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 with an increase of 17,000 percent in the last 12 months, and this helped to cement its selection."
Judy Pearsall explained its evolution: "The hashtag #selfie appeared on the photo-sharing website Flickr as early as 2004, but usage wasn't widespread until around 2012.
The term was made popular in 2013 when celebrities, in particular, began posting 'selfies' on Twitter and Instagram.
One of the most popular selfies of the past 12 months was arguably the first one to feature a member of the Vatican, showing Pope Francis posing with teenagers in a selfie that quickly went viral.

Even U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron posed for a selfie with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt at Nelson Mandela's memorial in December 2013.
In early examples, the word was often spelled with a -y, but the -ie form is more common today and has become the accepted spelling.