GIF is 2012 Oxford American Dictionaries’ Word of the Year

Michelle Garcia

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Animated GIFs – those image files that contained several frames that made an image look like a short video clip—were a big hit during the late nineties and are making a comeback on social networking sites like Tumblr. Which is probably why the Oxford American Dictionaries has chosen it as its 2012 word of the year. According to the dictionary, the word GIF is a verb that means to create a GIF file (an image or video sequence). GIF beat out other words including YOLO for this honor. 



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