Making “selfie” official might make you cringe now, but in 30 years people might wonder how it was ever *not* there. Here are some other popular words coined in recent decades and the years in which they were first cited in the Oxford English Dictionary.
1950: brainwashing, scram, shit-kicker, ponytail
(the rest)
1955: dee-jay, weirdo, badass
(the rest)
1960: barf, trend-setter, upchuck
A bigger year than normal for vomit. (the rest)
1963: dipshit, mind game, snarf
(the rest)
