'Kayfabe' Added To Oxford Dictionary

Oxford Dictionaries has released their annual list of pop culture words added to their dictionary and 'KAYFABE' has made it this year. Here's how the word is officially described;

"Probably not familiar to those outside the world of pro wrestling, the term kayfabe refers to €˜the fact or convention of presenting staged performances as genuine or authentic€™. The origin of the word is uncertain, although it is often said to have arisen in American travelling carnivals. The word has been interpreted by some as being an alteration of €˜be fake€™ backwards, while the -ay- element is typical of the way words are formed in Pig Latin."

And they try to tell us kayfabe is dead... To qualify for this list, words quite frankly just need to be words. Nothing more. They're taken quite literally from anywhere as the site describes as being 'from television shows to 1980s films to Shakespeare. From Japanese manga to the world of professional wrestling.' Other words on the new list include the likes of MacGyver, holodeck, hoverboard and mecha. It's a bit of a surprise that it has taken this long for kayfabe to work its way on to a list like this. Ever since wrestling's first major boom in the mid-80s especially, all sorts of news outlets have been out to get the profession of wrestling and prove it's the dreaded F-word (f*ke). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbl92RqHVmk There was a time when the workings of the business were sworn to secrecy. David Schultz and 20/20 reporter John Stossel's little incident, anyone... Stone Cold Steve Austin has even gone on record many times stating that he was convinced the action that takes place in the ring was real, right up until he started to train in the late 1980s. That's how sacred it was back in the day. It got to the stage when those in power of the business almost allowed the neigh-sayers into the inner working and acknowledged that it was indeed a work; those infamous dirt sheets were born and Vince McMahon coined the phrase 'sports entertainment'to confirm this. We wonder when SAWFT and the like will be added to the prestigious English dictionary...