When did this fashion start, by the way, for a “word of the year”? The OED has just made “selfie” the word of 2013. What won in, say, 1840; what would that teach us about Britain? The Penny Post was launched, so was “Stamp” all the rage? The great novelist Fanny Burney died, so maybe– […]

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