The GIF --a humble file format turned verb -- has been named Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year for 2012. The award completes the 25-year-old GIF's stunning rise from format of choice for ...

From its humble beginnings on black and white computers ... Without any further adieu, the creators of the gif pronounced the word as "jif", with a soft g like that in "gin".

Though it’s almost 30 years old, the humble gif has had something of a resurgence ... hypnotic rhythm and its ability to speak a thousand more words than a picture could. Whether it’s drawing ...

GIFs, those looping animated images, are a universal language – when words fail, a clip of a cool ... Wilhite, whose humble GIF changed the way we communicate online (and made it more fun ...

Despite an illustrious career, his online obituary notes that Wilhite "remained a very humble, kind, and good man." While the Oxford English Dictionary accepts two pronunciations of the word GIF ...

But the humble GIF has gained significance in 2012 ... On the British side of the Oxford publication, the 2012 British word of the year is omnishambles, defined “as a situation that has been ...

There’s no point in denying it: The GIF is an Internet staple we’ve completely given in to. But we humble users aren’t the only ones – when anything sees as meteoric a rise as GIFs have ...