Oxford dictionary adds "Zyzzyva" as the last new word

The Oxford English Dictionary has added a new last word  – “zyzzyva”, in it's latest update and i bet you can't pronounce it. 

The word” – “zyzzyva”, is a genus of tropical weevil native to South America typically found in palm trees and will now take the place of  “zythum”, an ancient Egyptian malt beer as the dictionary's final entry.
Zyzzyva: The newest last word in the Oxford English Dictionary, explained
The Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update, identified more than 600 words, phrases and senses that have entered common parlance.
The name was apparently coined by the US entomologist Thomas Lincoln Casey, who described it in a 1922 work, the OED said.

In any case, zyzzyva owes much of its currency in English to its notoriety as the last entry in various dictionaries, the ranks of which now include the OED, it said.

Zyzzyva is among a variety of new words to be added, which also include hygge, a Danish term described as “a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being”.

The new updates also features a number of politically charged new coinages, led by the 2016 word of the year “post-truth”, which has made its way into the latest update alongside “woke”, which was also shortlisted as a word of the year in 2016. “Woke” has been popularised by the Black Lives Matter movement to signify “being alert to racial and social discrimination and injustice”. 

Who can pronounce it?

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