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Oxford University Press named ‘hashtag’ children’s word of 2015. But how is social media changing the way we talk? Using hashtags, saying things in fewer words, and creating new words are just some of the influences social media is believed to have had on the English language. Anne Bagamery, the Senior Editor at the International New York Times and Matthew Bishop, US Business Editor at the Economist, discuss.

(Picture: A mobile phone on Twitter with a hashtag. Credit: Bethany Clarke, Getty Images.)