'Twerking' and 'selfie' added to Oxford dictionary

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[B]Twerking, the raunchy dance move performed by Miley Cyrus at the MTV VMAs is among the new words added to the Oxford Dictionary of English.[/B]
Oxford Dictionaries Online said the word, borrowed from hip hop culture, had become increasingly visible in the past 12 months.
Other words such as omnishambles and selfie also made their debut in the dictionary's quarterly online update.
Omnishambles was named word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary in 2012.
The word - meaning a situation which is shambolic from every possible angle - was coined in 2009 by the writers of BBC political satire The Thick of It.
Katherine Connor Martin from Oxford Dictionaries said the word twerk had been known colloquially in US hip hop culture for around 20 years.
"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," she said.
"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," she added.
Cyrus's dance routine at the MTV VMA's on Sunday saw her dance suggestively with singer Robin Thicke to his hit song, Blurred Lines.
The performance drew complaints from several quarters, including a parenting pressure group in the US.
On average around 1000 new entries are added to Oxford Dictionaries Online every year.
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[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23861702[/URL]

:eng101: [B]READ THIS BEFORE YOU START RANTING AND RAVING ABOUT THE STATE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

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It is important to note that the new words mentioned above have been added to Oxford Dictionaries Online, not the Oxford English Dictionary. Why is this?
• The dictionary content in ODO focuses on current English and includes modern meanings and uses of words
• The OED, on the other hand, is a historical dictionary and it forms a record of all the core words and meanings in English over more than 1,000 years, from Old English to the present day, including many obsolete and historical terms. Words are never removed from the OED.
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[URL]http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/08/28/_twerk_and_selfie_added_to_oxford_english_dictionary_nope_and_stop_saying.html[/URL]

[Cush]

Don't really see the problem...They are words after all, and as it says the dictionary is almost like an archive of words that have come and go.

People who are getting all ragey because of some words that are actually used being put in the dictionary need to take a chill pill.

[Samiam]

Imagine in 500 years or so when the words 'selfie' and 'twerking' will be considered pretty much old english.

[gooooooooooogle]

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[DeafNoEyes]

[QUOTE=Samiam22;42029960]Imagine in 500 years or so when the words 'selfie' and 'twerking' will be considered pretty much old english.[/QUOTE]

I hath gazed upon thine selfie and found myself twerking as a consequence of this action.

[AK'z]

is bumbaclut in the dictionary?

[thisispain]

well the english language is pretty much dead now its time to move on to a new language

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=thisispain;42029986]well the english language is pretty much dead now its time to move on to a new language[/QUOTE]

Greek or Sanskrit needs to be the primary language holmes.

[MaikkiBoi]

[QUOTE=gooooooooooogle;42029963][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/KwaEtiQ.png[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0doHo6p.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]How did twerking become a thing anyway?

[benbb]

[QUOTE=MaikkiBoi;42030009]How did twerking become a thing anyway?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]In the United States, twerking was introduced into hip-hop culture by way of the New Orleans bounce music scene. In 1993, DJ Jubilee recorded the dance tune "Do The Jubilee All" in which he chanted, "Twerk baby, twerk baby, twerk, twerk, twerk."[6] The video for the song increased the popularity of twerking. In 1995 New Orleans-based rapper Cheeky Blakk recorded the song "Twerk Something!" a call-and-response dance song dedicated to twerking. In 1997 DJ Jubilee recorded "Get Ready, Ready" in which he encouraged listeners to "Twerk it!".
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[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twerking[/url]

[trefle]

[QUOTE=MaikkiBoi;42030009]How did twerking become a thing anyway?[/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://31.media.tumblr.com/ec455340b9162c8ee0d682423d8c7eeb/tumblr_ms480a30MV1r5j928o1_500.gif[/IMG]

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=MaikkiBoi;42030009]How did twerking become a thing anyway?[/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEppirc-8pI[/media]

[Mr. Someguy]

:suicide:

[Re-y-tard]

[QUOTE=LaTrefle;42030022][IMG]http://31.media.tumblr.com/ec455340b9162c8ee0d682423d8c7eeb/tumblr_ms480a30MV1r5j928o1_500.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I always thought twerking was moving the butt up and down in a fast pace? To me she's just jiggling her butt cheeks against that guys crotch.

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;42030066]:suicide:[/QUOTE]

[quote]Listen Up Dumbfucks:

Most people kill themselves because of a mental condition. This is true in my case too. The condition I suffer from is that I am not normal, I am not like everyone of you "sane" people.

I am not normal in the sense that I am not like every other one of you brain-dead zombies. I can think. I can reason intelligently. I can observe and learn from life. I can make my own decisions and follow through on them. And I can do these without any aid from celebrities, T.V., radio or MySpace. Unfortunately, every one of you shit-brained lemmings seem to lack these skills and I can't fucking take it any more.

Since everyone else in this world is a fucking retarded drone who revels in their ignorance and unintelligence, I must put an end to my misery. I truly wish I was normal. I wish I could be a fucking retarded sponge like all of you. I wish I could have the same conversations day in and day out about sports, politics and "how about that weather huh?". But I can't.

Sure you'll see this note and say Mr. Someguy's the crazy one. You have to it's the only way you can go on thinking you're sane and your pathetic life is meaningful. Go ahead, call me the weirdo like everyone else surely will. Then, return to your happiness of everyday mindless monotony.

My only wish is that the bullet I put into my brain doesn't kill me but only leaves me brain dead. For if ignorance is bliss and everyone of you fuck-for-brains is truly happy, then living a life without a brain stem in a coma, devoid of any cognitive ability must surely be utopia.

Leave My Machine Plugged In You Fucking Retards,

Mr. Someguy

P.S. Please mail my cable bill. It's on the credenza.[/quote]

[Steve Harvey]

[QUOTE=thisispain;42030132]Note[/QUOTE]
nice find lol

[Quote] August 31, 2013
To Whomever Found My Body;

Mom, if that's you reading this: I was actually murdered, my corpse was desecrated by those "damn, dirty, faggot-jew-muslim-hippie gypsies" you always warned us as kids about, they made me write this note to cover up their horrible, heinous crime and you should stop reading now.

If you're reading this and you're not my mother, then most likely I am hanging by a noose from the rafters with a smile on my face, a zucchini up my ass and covered in a wad of jiz and nacho cheese.

Damn it, I wish I wouldn't have kicked the chair so far or tied the noose so tight. Maybe I should have just sprung for a whore. Steve Harvey, you cheap, dumb dead bastard.

Oh well, at least I died doing something I loved: Asphyxiating myself while watching Blue's Clues.

I knew I should have had a spotter.

Steve Harvey

P.S. Just to be sure, could you check my pulse again?[/quote]

[dogmachines]

For some reason when I first heard "selfie" I thought it was something radically different than a picture of yourself.

[Mud]

[QUOTE=dogmachines;42030161]For some reason when I first heard "selfie" I thought it was something radically different than a picture of yourself.[/QUOTE]

I linked it to masturbation for some reason

[a-cookie]

[QUOTE=dogmachines;42030161]For some reason when I first heard "selfie" I thought it was something radically different than a picture of yourself.[/QUOTE]

I thought it was a form of autofellatio.

Was disappointed.

[Ibexaz]

Went to a party last night and got twerked at by these three chicks

You never fully grasp how ratchet twerking is until you see it in the wild