Michelle Obama shared one with her "first dog" Bo, Hillary Clinton tweeted one with her daughter Chelsea. Now "selfie" — the self-portrait taken with a smartphone — has been declared word of the year for 2013, according to Britain's Oxford University Press.
The publisher of the Oxford dictionaries said Nov. 19 that "selfie" saw a huge jump in usage in the past year, bursting from the confines of Instagram and Twitter to become mainstream shorthand for any self-taken photograph. (AP)
オックスフォード英語辞典が選ぶ今年の流行語に、 selfie( セルフィー)が選ばれたと11月19日、出版社が発表した。セルフィーとは、自分で撮影した自分の写真のことだ。
The Japan Times ST: November 29, 2013