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Whether it reads horribly, is difficult to pronounce or just invokes a feeling of indescribable horror, you don’t have to be a grammar Nazi to wholeheartedly despise a word.

And just in case you’ve never felt fully able to express your hatred of one particular piece of language, the good people at Oxford Dictionaries now have an official means through which people can denounce their least favourite words.

The #OneWordMap is a global campaign aimed at discovering the most hated word in the English language and so far the results are pretty much bang on.

According to Indy100, “moist” is currently the number one most hated word worldwide.

Other words which have already received the vote of doom vary from “no”, “like” and “stupid” to “Brexit”, “love” and “panties”.

The project – which has already received over 10,000 submissions from around the world – aims to gather information which will allow researchers to map the least popular words in the English language by country, age and gender.

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Every year, the famed Oxford English Dictionary introduces new and popular words to its online database – and this year, ALL the best ones made it.

From manspreading, bruh and even awesomesauce, here are the great new additions that made the final cut:

Awesomesauce, adj.: (US informal) extremely good; excellent

Bants (also bantz), pl. n.: (Brit. informal) playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter

Beer o'clock, n: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer

Brain fart, n: (informal) a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly

Bruh, n: (US informal) a male friend (often used as a form of address)

​Cakeage, n: (informal) a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves

Fat-shame, v: cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size

Fur baby, n: a person's dog, cat, or other furry pet animal

Hangry, adj: (informal) bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger

​Manspreading, n: the practice whereby a man, especially one travelling on public transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats

Mkay, excl: (informal, chiefly US) non-standard spelling of OK, representing an informal pronunciation (typically used at the end of a statement to invite agreement, approval, or confirmation)

Pocket dial, v: inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one's pocket, as a result of pressure being accidentally applied to a button or buttons on the phone

Wine o'clock, n: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine

 

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So it turns out that Miley Cyrus can’t claim she was responsible for making ‘twerk’ happen after all. Neither is Iggy Azalea actually. We bet they're pretty annoyed about that. 

New research from the Oxford English Dictionary has said that the use of the word actually goes back as far as the 1800s.

Having now revised it’s entry for the word, the OED describes twerking as dancing “in a sexually provocative manner, using thrusting movements of the bottom and hips while in  a low, squatting stance.” Good to know.

Also, it was previously spelled ‘twirk’, and the OED described it as a jerking movement, or a twitch.

Twerking isn’t the only word getting a revamp for the dictionary. While POTUS was already an entry, FLOTUS has also been added (First Lady of the United States). More proof that people just really love Michelle Obama perhaps?

More of our favourite phrases have been officially added, according to a blog post from the OED and it includes some of these gems:

Twitterati (noun): Users of the social networking service Twitter collectively, typically referring to the group of prolific contributors or those who have high numbers of followers. [2006]

Fo’ shizzle (adjective): This slang term originated in the language of rap and hip-hop and means ‘for sure’. [2001]

Freegan (noun): A person who eats discarded food, typically collected from the refuse of shops or restaurants, for ethical or ecological reasons [1997]. It can also be used as an adjective.

Hot mess (noun): A hot mess referred to ‘a warm meal, especially one served to a group’ in 1818, but now it is more commonly used as a slang term for something or someone in extreme confusion or disorder.

 

Meh (interjection): This interjection, expressing indifference or a lack of enthusiasm, was probably popularized by the cartoon series The Simpsons, but it was already in use online by 1992 – two years before it was used in the programme.

sext (n., 2001): a sexually explicit or suggestive message or image sent electronically, typically using a mobile phone. Back in the 1500s, when someone referred to a “sext,” they were talking about a Christian worship ritual that involved chanting around midday.

So now there’s a grammatically correct way to call out your cheap friend who happens to call over just after someone’s ordered a pizza, fabulous.

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