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Giffing is all the rage

By Troy Doetch | November 25, 2012

Reflecting on Oxford Dictionaries USA’s “Word of the Year,” Katherine Connor Martin, a lexicographer on the judging panel, said the goal of the project has been to choose a word that “embodies in some way the ethos of the year.” With this objective...