New Words Added To Oxford English Dictionary

Twerking, the raunchy dance move performed by Miley Cyrus at the
MTV VMAs is among the new words added to the Oxford English
Dictionary.
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 make their debut
as part of the dictionary’s quarterly 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.