The Oxford Online Dictionary, in its bid to recognise current trends in words has included the words ‘Selfie’ and ‘Twerking’ in the dictionary.
The word “Twerking” has been found to be common among hip hop trends for 20 years, while ‘Selfie’ emerged due to technological advances in phone cameras, which meant people could take high quality photos of themselves, if they were so inclined.
This change was said to have taken place after Miley Cyrus exhibited some controversial ‘twerking’ at the MTV VMAs during a rendition of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, a song that caused havoc due to its ostentatious and sexist lyrics.
Speaking on the latest additions, Connor Martin, of the Oxford Dictionary, said, “By last year, it had generated enough currency to be added to our new words watch list, and by this spring, we had enough evidence of usage frequency in a breadth of sources to consider adding it to our dictionaries of current English.
“There are many theories about the origin of this word, and since it arose in oral use, we may never know the answer for sure. The current public reaction to twerking is reminiscent in some ways of how the twisting craze was regarded in the early 1960s, when it was first popularised by Chubby Checker’s song, The Twist,” he added.
Other words that have made it into the dictionary recently are Dappy: being silly, disorganised or lacking concentration; Digital detox,: taking some time away from sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and Vom: to be sick.
The word ‘literally’ recently underwent a transformation to mean an ‘emphasis of a point’ as well as ‘exactly’ or ‘precisely’ what happened.
Credits: Telegraphng.
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