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Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford, told me in an e-mail, "the concept of a Word of the Year is inherently subjective: we analyze frequency and historical evidence, but our real goal is to identify an emerging word that embodies the zeitgeist of the year, and that is the driving force behind the choice".
In an email to Silvia Killingsworth of The New Yorker, Katherine Martin, head of the U.S. dictionaries at Oxford, gave the following rationale for the choice of selfie, "...We analyze frequency and historical evidence, but our real goal is to identify an emerging word that embodies the zeitgeist of the year, and that is the driving force behind our choice".
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When she is instructed to pay close attention to something, she positions her face a couple of inches from the other character's mouth and then twists and tilts her head to have a better view of the emerging words.
Publisher Collins invited people to become "word-spotters" and suggest new and emerging words for inclusion.
It also contains the word "adorkable", which was voted in by Twitter users from a shortlist of emerging words.
Though the Oxford Dictionaries editors can submit words for consideration and the final choice is made by editors, lexicographers and other staffers, the process is bolstered by the use of software that scans the web for emerging words, changes in word usage, and shifts in frequency.
Words have histories; some old ones fade, new ones emerge, word culture changes.
Though no details of the race have emerged, word of the news conference fueled speculation that Oaklawn, a track in Hot Springs, Ark., is working on bringing Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta together for the Apple Blossom Handicap on April 3. Rachel Alexandra won the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year as a 3-year-old filly.
This entropy contains contributions both from the words' frequencies regardless of their order and from the correlations emerging from word order.
It emerged that word had spread in Nigeria that NSK was a beautiful country that was accepting new citizens.
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