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                    [Title] => Click click, bang bang: ‘Selfie’ is our word of the year
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In a time when Filipino teenagers can accidentally shoot themselves in the head while attempting a Clint Eastwood-esque selfie; when our local bishops organization can promote papal selfies with a cardboard cut-out of Pope Francis; and when lawmakers can debate the merits of a bill that could possibly intrude on our right to take selfies—it makes perfect sense that “selfie” has been declared our word of the year in the recently concluded Sawikaan 2014.

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“Miskol” is word of the year, besting 11 other entries to the 2007 Sawikaan: Salita ng Taon conference held at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City before the weekend, a statement from conference organizers said.

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By MINI CRITIQUE | By Isagani Cruz | September 27, 2007 - 12:00am
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