GIF, used as a verb, is the Oxford American Dictionaries’ word of the year. The dictionary company announced the pick with an animated GIF. The word of the year is “chosen annually as a word ...

It's 10 times the size of the Oxford English dictionary, and the newest words are so new they don't yet have a definition. Instead, Wordnik provides links to places where the word was discovered.

The Oxford English Dictionary has named GIF the American word of the year. Some people might see this as a reason to declare language dead and start communicating only in a mixture of grunts and ...

If you were to choose the word of the year, the year being 2012, what would you pick? Trust this will be a matter of much enjoyably conflict-filled discussion as we gear up for end of the year ...

The word describes an image file type that's been around for decades. But GIF, like many things from the 1980s before it, made a huge comeback in 2012.

The Oxford English Dictionary said the 2012 Word of the Year is "Omnishambles" in Britain and "gif" in the U.S. Caleb Jones / The Associated Press Caleb Jones / The Associated Press ...

2012, it seems, is the year the GIF finally receives the recognition it deserves. Long had the short animated images languished on 4chan and Reddit before transitioning over to Tumblr and BuzzFeed.… ...

It’s official: GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. The word–and the computer science behind it–has been around since the 1980s, but the GIF… ...

In a move sure to delight BuzzFeed fans, the Oxford American Dictionary has announced that 2012's word of the year is "GIF." GIFs, a longstanding part of internet meme culture, are simple, jerkily ...

Internet culture gets its proper due in journalism today, as "GIF" has beat out "YOLO" as the Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining ...