Twerk Added To Britain's Oxford Dictionary...
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'TWERKING' BOUNCES INTO OXFORD DICTIONARY
LONDON (AP) — Twerking, the rump-busting up-and-down dance move long beloved on America's hip-hop scene, has officially gone mainstream. It's got the English dictionary entry to prove it.
Britain's Oxford Dictionaries said the rapid-fire gyrations employed by U.S. pop starlet Miley Cyrus to bounce her way to the top of the charts had become increasingly visible in the past 12 months and would be added to its publications under the entry: "Twerk, verb."
Although Cyrus's eye-popping moves at Monday's MTV Video Music Awards may have been many viewers' first introduction to the practice, Oxford Dictionaries' Katherine Connor Martin said "twerking" was some two decades old.
"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," Martin said. "We think the most likely theory is that it is an alteration of work, because that word has a history of being used in similar ways, with dancers being encouraged to 'work it.' The 't' could be a result of blending with another word such as twist or twitch."
"Twerk" will be added to the dictionary as part of its quarterly update, which includes words such as "selfie," the word typically used to describe pouty smartphone self-portraits, "digital detox" for time spent way from Facebook and Twitter, and "Bitcoin," for the nationless electronic currency whose gyrations have also caught the world's eye.
Oxford Dictionaries is responsible for a range of reference works, including Oxford Dictionaries Online, which focuses on modern usage, and the historically-focused Oxford English Dictionary, which probably won't be adding "twerk" to its venerable pages any time soon.
The definition: "Twerk, v.: dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance."
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This is great.
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Its a sad day in British history when this kind of fuckery is formally acknowledged.
@BabyBugatti these your homegirls? -
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twerking been going on for years then a white girl does it and goes in the dictionary, classic.
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White folks smfh, ya'll got to do better. Twerking is older than writing.
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Why are you locked up @emperorrises?
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oh wow...I didn't know beefing was a jail-able offense
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stringer bell wrote: »
That chick holding -
I can't wait to hear the Ying Yang Twin's response
LEMME SEE YOU MAKE THAT ? ? , GOOD LORD
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Thank you Miss Miley.
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stringer bell wrote: »
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The ? is she doing? At least she's showing that she would be a terrible ? .
No one likes stiff ?
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AND THIS IS BECAUSE OF MILEY CIRUS AND FLAT ASS.... BLACK FOLKS CANT HAVE ? !
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lil jon getting "skeet" in the dictionary>>>>>>> miley getting "twerk" in the dictionary..
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If any one credits that body of a 13 year old lil boy n/h Mr. ED teeth having Miley Cyrus 4 this hang yourself now
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If whites are so happy of this they should create a twerk holiday for women.
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That didn't take long!
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Damn, white folks so greedy they takin our negative stereotypes
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One step closer to my dream of twerking becoming an Olympic sport.