Love it or loathe it, perhaps one of the most interesting things about bae is the lively discussion which has ensued about where precisely it sprang from. Ironically, in the crazy world of language change, such commentary often encourages, rather than erodes, a new word's 'stickability'. At the end of 2014, bae even featured in a US university's annual list of 'banished words'. It's odd how some words inexplicably, and often unjustifiably, seem to get people's backs up.

In 2013, bae had made enough impact to be among the American Dialect Society's nominees for 'word of the year', and its exposure got a further boost in 2014 when it featured in the title of a number by singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams – 'Come Get It, Bae'.Īt the time of writing bae is very much in vogue, though like trendy coinages such as dench and amazeballs before it, it has triggered a ripple of derision in some circles, dismissed as irritating teen speak. Its sudden popularity is partly attributable to its distribution via internet memes such as 'cooking for bae', a caption for photographs displaying unsuccessful attempts to cook dishes for a romantic partner. At the end of 2014, bae even featured in a US university's annual list of 'banished words'īae is used in social media contexts as an informal reference to a person's 'significant other', an affectionate shorthand for the individual they have a romantic relationship with. So I turned to the internet, only to discover that bae was one of those lexical newbies which provokes diverse reactions. Though I was confident that she couldn't possibly be referring to British Aerospace, I also had the nagging concern that everyone in the twittersphere understood this term except me. If you're scratching your head at this point then I sympathize, having spent some time trying to figure out what on earth my 17-year-old goddaughter was talking about every time the word bae appeared in her tweets.

Valentine's day is upon us, and if you're a social media fan, romantically attached and, perhaps most crucially, of a youthful age, then current language trends suggest that your Facebook or Twitter posts will be littered with references to your bae.

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