(CNN) -- Hey, twerk. You're having a pretty good week, aren't you? First, Miley Cyrus and her gyrations at the MTV VMAs. And now this. The Oxford dictionaries have picked you as an official word. An honest-to-goodness word. Twerk, verb. Look at you! But you're not the only one. The online version of that well-respected dictionary does a quarterly update of "current English," adding terms its editors say have been absorbed by popular culture. Joining you today are fauxhawk (you know, that David Beckham haircut), phablet (phone+tablet) and, of course, selfie. Yes, srsly. What the guac? Oxford updates food definitions In this age of text messaging, you can bet that any word that can be shortened will soon become a perfectly acceptable substitute for that word.. That's why, we now have grats, instead of congrats. Apols, instead of apologies. And vom, instead of vomit. Oh chill out, word nerds. English is a living breathing thing and words will evolve. Get with the program. But what surprised us is that the dictionary editors say 'twerk' has been around for 20 years. Apparently, it's started as a variation of 'work' -- as in, 'Work it girl.' Twenty years? Why, that's how long Miley's been in this world. Hmm.

(CNN) -- This is going to give grammarians a headache, literalists a migraine and language nerds a nervous breakdown. Alas, poor literally . . . The definition of literally is no longer the literal definition of literally. Gizmodo has discovered Google's definition for literally includes this: "Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling." But it doesn't end with Google. Merriam-Wesbter and Cambridge dictionaries have also added the informal, non-literal definition. So what's the deal? Funky words make it into the dictionary Next thing they'll be telling us that there's no ham in hamburger, no egg in eggplant, a boxing ring isn't round and tennis shoes aren't just for tennis. We're literally over it. Hooray for Dictionary.com, which has bucked the trend but includes the info in an editor's note below the definition. Dictionary finally acknowledges humans can tweet, too "The use is often criticized; nevertheless, it appears in all but the most carefully edited writing." (Reader: insert your own joke here)

I'm just going to point to my signature and in the middle is linguist David Crystal.

I really love language, especially right now as a result from studying language variation. If a little addition like "twerking" into the dictionary bothers people, that's nothing

Although I hate twerking and not a fan of what it really is, language does change and it's good to keep content that reflects different times. Really interesting for linguists.