{"id":8372,"date":"2014-11-18T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:02","slug":"vape-is-the-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/18\/vape-is-the-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcVape\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Is the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2014\/11\/18\/vape-word-of-the-year\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BN-FP231_1118va_G_20141118092153.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;font-size: 1.4em;line-height: 1.314em;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Breathe in, breathe out. The\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Oxford Dictionaries<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Word of the Year is:\u00c2\u00a0<strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcVape.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;font-size: 1.4em;line-height: 1.314em;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>vape<\/strong>,\u00c2\u00a0<em>verb:<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Inhale and exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;font-size: 1.4em;line-height: 1.314em;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>vape<\/strong>,\u00c2\u00a0<em>noun:<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0An electronic cigarette or similar device; an act of inhaling and exhaling the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;font-size: 1.4em;line-height: 1.314em;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">According to Oxford Dictionaries editors, use of the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vape\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in 2014 has shot up to more than double its use in 2013. It arrived just in time to fill the gap left by the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153smoking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as many switched to electronic cigarettes,\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"color: #115b8f;font-weight: bold\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/e-cigarette-use-by-youths-rising-government-study-shows-1415901602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now a multi-million dollar industry<\/a>. A \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vaping lexicon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has sprung up around the word, with phrases like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vape pen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vape shop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d also increasing in popularity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2014\/11\/18\/vape-word-of-the-year\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcVape\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Is the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year &#8211; Speakeasy &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vape&#8221; is the Oxford Dictionaries&#8217; Word of the Year for 2014.  You can exhale now (sorry, I couldn&#8217;t resist the exhalation joke).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[994,993],"class_list":["post-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-oxford","tag-word-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9970,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}