Vape, bae, indyref make it to the Oxford Dictionaries

The words Vape, bae and indyref were recently added in the Oxford Dictionaries, it has been revealed.

When used as a verb vape means inhaling and exhaling the vapour produced by e-cigarettes, while it can also be used as a noun to refer to the devices themselves, the mirror reported.

Oxford Dictionaries has announced vape as its international word of the year, reflecting the meteoric rise of popularity, and scrutiny, of electronic cigarettes.

Bae, originated in African-American English is used as a term of endearment for a romantic partner and is popular on social media and hip-hop and RandB music was also shortlisted for the title, along with indyref, used to describe the poll on Scottish independence.

Bae was thought to have been most likely originated as a shortened form of baby or babe, but is sometimes interpreted as an acronym for "before anyone else."

The candidates for the word of the year are drawn initially from the Oxford Dictionaries New Monitor Corpus, a research programme which collects around 150 million words of current English in use each month, using automated search criteria to scan new web content.

Sophisticated software allows experts to identify new and emerging words on a daily basis and examine the shifts that occur in geography, register, and frequency of use.

Other shortlisted words included Budtender, Normcore, Contactless and Slacktivism.