The word they picked is actually GIF the verb — I GIF, you GIF, we all GIF! The usage is a little foreign to me, even as an internet veteran, ...

It's been delighting people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds a honored place in the cultural lexicon: "GIF" has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.

The eggheads at Oxford American Dictionaries have spoken — and they’ve decreed that 2012’s Word of the Year is, officially, GIF, a verb meaning “to create a GIF file of (an image or video ...

It’s time for those GIF-ers to YOLO, are we right?! The verb “GIF” is the Oxford American Dictionaries’ 2012 word of the year. GIFs—originally pronounced with a soft “g,” though more ...

If you were to choose the word of the year, the year being 2012, what would you pick? Trust this will be a matter of much enjoyably conflict-filled discussion as we gear up for end of the year ...

GIF, used as a verb, is the Oxford American Dictionaries’ word of the year. The dictionary company announced the pick with an animated GIF. The word of the year is “chosen annually as a word ...

Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possi ...

It’s official: GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. The word–and the computer science behind it–has been around since the 1980s, but the GIF… ...