Robbie Love is a Research Student in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. His research interests lie within corpus linguistics but also include corpus-based (critical) discourse analysis, language change, and metaphor.
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Stop snapping selfies and start vaping – it’s the word of the year
Selfies were so 2013. But vaping’s in: Oxford Dictionaries have announced vape as its international Word of the Year 2014. The runners up are bae, budtender, contactless, indyref, normcore and slacktivism.