‘Twerking’ Has Officially Been Added to the Oxford English Dictionary

The raunchy dance move known as ‘twerking’ is now a real word in the Oxford English Dictionary. At the MTV Video Music Awards Miley Cyrus broke out her ‘twerking’ on Robin Thicke, who has a wife and a three-year-old child, I bet that made the family happy.

So how did ‘Twerking’ get into the dictionary? Katherine Connor Martin, of the Oxford English Dictionary told the BBC: "By last year, it had generated enough currency to be added to our new words watch list. By the spring, we had enough evidence of usage frequency in a breadth of sources to consider adding it to our dictionaries of current English."

Martin, who said that the word twerk had already been a part of hip-hop culture in the US for 20 years, added: "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 popularized by Chubby Checker's song, 'The Twist'."
I bet Billy Ray is so proud of his little girl.