Today, 19th November 2013, saw a BBC-lead news focus on a new word named as "word of the year" by the Oxford Dictionary: selfie

The dictionary is regarded as a kind of 'bible' by many people. Somehow the definitions given in a dictionary are thought to be true and definitive. But of course they are only true in the sense that we as a society firstly create the definitions and secondly accept them, largely, to be so. 

So just a note of caution when you next refer to the dictionary and ask yourself: "Does this definition reflect my own experiences, my own examples?"

A Selfie