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Oxford word of the year-Vape
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Oxford Dictionaries picked “vape” the act of smoking an e-cigarette as their new word of the year on Tuesday, with the affectionate “bae” and the more pragmatic “contactless” as runners-up.
London: Oxford Dictionaries picked “vape” the act of smoking an e-cigarette as their new word of the year on Tuesday, with the affectionate “bae” and the more pragmatic “contactless” as runners-up.
“Vaping has gone mainstream,” with usage doubling in 2014 compared to 2013, editorial director Judy Pearsall said.
“The language usage of the word vape and related terms in 2014 has shown a marked increase” due to celebrities “vaping” and “growing public debate on the public dangers and the need for regulation”, she said.
The word, which was first used in the 1980s, can be employed as a verb to mean inhaling and exhaling the vapour produced by electronic cigarettes but also as a noun to refer to the devices themselves.
It was added on Oxforddictionaries.com in August. E-cigarettes only began to be produced around a decade ago but the first use of the word is believed to be a 1983 magazine article by Rob Stepney which imagined the use of inhalers instead of cigarettes.
“The new habit, if it catches on, would be known as vaping,” it said. Oxford Dictionaries said the word only began to appear regularly in mainstream sources around 2009.
“Contactless” also made it on the list because of the growing use of cards with special chips to make payments in retail outlets and on public transport.
AFP
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