The Daily Illini

GIF is word of the year over YOLO

With each passing year, popular culture welcomes the heavy usage of new words and phrases for an indefinite period of time. Eventually, these terms go from daily mentions to casual references to ...
Observer

GIF Beats Out YOLO to Become the Oxford American Dictionary’s 2012 Word of the Year

Now, the GIF has received the ultimate sign of zeitgeisty approval: “GIF” (the verb) is officially the Oxford American Dictionaries’ 2012 word of the year. “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, ...
Los Angeles Times

GIF (v.) bests YOLO as Oxford dictionaries’ U.S. word of the year

“Higgs Boson” was a contender. So were “superstorm,” “Super PAC” and “YOLO” (an acronym that stands for You Only Live Once). But Katherine Martin, head of the U.S. dictionaries program at Oxford ...
NPR

'GIF' Beats Out 'YOLO' As Oxford Dictionary Word Of 2012

"GIF," as in the file type, has been chosen as Oxford Dictionary's American word of 2012. The runner up? "YOLO," which is short for "You only live once." "The GIF, a compressed file format for images ...