YOLO, gender-fluid and yogalates are just three of more than 1,000 new words to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

The latest edition of the OED will feature 1,200 new entries. Among them are the terms “Westminster bubble’ – fitting, given the tumultuous year in politics we’ve had – and “moobs”.

Several US-inspired words also made the cut, including “fuhgeddaboudit” (“forget about it” in a New Yoik accent) and “’Merica”.

Interestingly, the latter two words also bear witness to the internet’s influence on how we write, speak and think. Words and phrases that previously would have simply been said in a certain accent are now being routinely written down that way: see also “biatch”, the term “bitch” said/written in a sardonic US accent. “’Merica” is most often used online – either as an outburst of patriotism, or as a way of gently mocking those who use the term seriously.

These are the intriguing new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary