It's been delighting people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds a honored place in the cultural lexicon: "GIF" has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.

Oxford American Dictionaries chose the verb form of GIF as 2012’s Word of the Year, and we celebrate this news with 30 jubilant GIFs.

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 ...

But GIF, like many things from the 1980s before it, made a huge comeback in 2012. ... "GIF," as in the file type, has been chosen as Oxford Dictionary's American word of 2012. The runner up?

GIF beat out words like YOLO, second-screening, and superstorm for this year's crown. In the Oxford English Dictionary, GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format and is defined as "a ...

It HAS delighted people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds an honoured place in the cultural lexicon: “GIF” has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.

Melbourne, Nov 13 (ANI): "To gif" has topped as 2012's word of the year, as declared by the Oxford American Dictionary. Although some argue the boffins are "totes [totally] ancient" because GIFs - ...

It's been delighting people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds a honored place in the cultural lexicon: "GIF" has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.

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 ...