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"\"GIF\" was chosen by Oxford American College Dictionary as its word of 2012, while its British cousin chose \"omnishambles.\"\n\u201CGIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining traction as a verb, not just a noun,\u201D Katherine Martin, head of the U.S. dictionaries program at Oxford, said in a statement. \u201CThe GIF has evolved from a medium for pop-cultural memes into a tool with serious applications, including research and journalism, and its lexical identity is transforming to keep pace.\u201D\nA compressed file format used in computer animation, GIF beat out words like Eurogeddon (the potential financial collapse of the Eurozone), super PAC, superstorm, Higgs boson, and YOLO (You Only Live Once)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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