We Need To Find A New Word For The Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary calls themselves "the definitive record of the English language" and they announced today that it has approved of more than 500 new entries, including fo’ shizzle and FLOTUS. Seriously. Based on some of these entries, anything's up for grabs.

C'mon. I have nothing against "fo shizzle" -- it's funny as heck and great slang, but a word? Seeing the actual dictionary definition in all its seriousness (as opposed to anything you see in Urban Dictionary) is flat-out hilarious.

"FLOTUS" is an acronym standing for "First Lady Of the United States", but a word?

"Twerk" is now in there too, but interestingly, researchers also discovered that the word “twerk“ -- described as dancing “in a sexually provocative manner, using thrusting movements of the bottom and hips while in a low, squatting stance" -- is almost 200 years old and was first used as a noun to refer to a “twisting or jerking movement“ back in 1820.

Other new entries that made the dictionary’s cut include autotune, Blu-ray, crowdfund, e-cig, kryptonite, photobomb (as both a noun and a verb), retweet (both noun and verb), sext (also noun and verb), SD card, stanky, tenderpreneur, tweeting, Twitterati, thumb drive, webisode, vaping and voluntourism.

Is our language deteriorating, or simply evolving to reflect the mainstream culture? If you say the latter, then maybe we should ask the first part of the question again. Fo' shizzle.

So here at Q92.3 we're looking to create a new word that will be ours right here in the Cedar Valley, and something that can end up in the Oxford English Dictionary.

On the show this morning we came up with "swoob" (sweaty boob), "swass" (similar only with a different body part), "Waterloosers", and "fappy" (fat and happy).