Oxford American Dictionaries’ 2012 Word of the Year is Uninspiring [Poll]

Yesterday, Oxford American Dictionaries announced that the word GIF has been chosen as its 2012 Word of the Year.  Now don't get the wrong idea.  You are no doubt assuming that the word "GIF" is being used as a noun, meaning a picture or image.  In this case, Oxford Dictionaries Online defines GIF “to create a GIF file of (an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event).  So, it's being used as a verb for their "Word of the Year" purposes.

Is anyone thinking "lame!"?  I certainly am.  Is that the best they could come up with for the Word of the Year?  Let's find out what words it beat.  Here's a shortlist of other candidates that were considered:

Eurogeddon: the potential financial collapse of the Eurozone, envisaged as having catastrophic implications for the region's economic stability [from euro + (arma)geddon]

Super PAC: a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates

Superstorm: an unusually large and destructive storm

Nomophobia: anxiety caused by being without one's mobile phone.  Derived from [no and mo(bile) + phobia].

Higgs boson: a subatomic particle whose existence is predicted by the theory that unified the weak and electromagnetic interactions

YOLO: you only live once; typically used as rationale or endorsement for impulsive or irresponsible behavior.

MOOC: massive open online course; a university course offered free of charge via the internet.