"Irritable Bowel Syndrome" Added to Webster's Dictionary
#161024 - 03/16/05 08:24 AM
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Saw this article today and thought it was pretty funny. Of course the article was focused on "wedgie" making it in the dictionary, but the last paragraph shows the IBS addition.
'Wedgie' Added to Webster's Dictionary
CLEVELAND - Wedgie, a teenager's locker-room nightmare, has made it into the dictionary. Webster's New World College Dictionary based in Cleveland said wedgie was among its new additions to its latest edition.
The new edition will carry this listing: wedgie: noun. a prank in which the victim's undershorts are jerked upward so as to become wedged between the buttocks.
The dictionary also carries the tradition wedgie definition of a type of shoe.
"`Wedgie' was always a part of the high school terminology that you sort of never thought about later," said Editor in Chief Michael Agnes.
"It never really entered the mainstream until the '90s. It broke out of high school and, boy — if you don't know what it is, you're absolutely at a loss."
The new edition will reach bookstores by May and has 58 new entries, plus another 20 new senses of existing words (such as wedgie).
The additions include Al Qaeda, blog, cargo pants, irritable bowel syndrome and partial-birth abortion.
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- Jennifer
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Aww, cute picture of Miss Lacey! How's she doing? How are you doing?
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Melissa
Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent
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Hey Melissa,
Thanks! Lacey is doing great - her eye is almost 100% better. She just has some lingering "eye goobers" (technical name.. LOL) that are starting to disappear. However, she has learned how to get my attention by doing something she's not supposed to do! When I'm not paying attention to her, she'll jump up on my dresser or try drinking out of my water cup on my nightstand.
How's Gracie doing? Still getting spoiled?
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- Jennifer
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That's so funny!
Do you know what their definition of it is?? Makes me wonder what they think it means.
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Here's the online Merrian-Webster definition:
Main Entry: irritable bowel syndrome
Function: noun
: a chronic functional disorder of the colon that is characterized especially by constipation or diarrhea, cramping abdominal pain, and the passage of mucus in the stool -- abbreviation IBS
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- Jennifer
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Gracie will just yell at me if she's not getting enough attention, or jump on my laptop while I'm trying to work! She's good though. She had to get a bath the other night, she was playing with the lid to my roommate's peach (sweetened) iced tea, and some of the tea spilled on her back, and her pack was still sticky an hour later when I got home. Yeah, that was fun....Gracie so did not want to be in the kitchen sink, even before I put the water on. I got really wet, but Gracie got clean and spent the rest of the night drying herself since she wouldn't let me dry her with the towel.
Glad to hear Lacey's doing better!
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Melissa
Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent
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Aww.. did you take pictures? I don't know if I could give Lacey a bath. She's starting to run from me everytime I get near her with the ointment tube.
Lacey walks on my laptop too! I think I need to turn the sound on and everytime she does it, press a key that makes a loud noise. LOL Another thing she likes doing is rubbing up against the monitor corner of the laptop.
Oooh the other morning, I opened up the window in my room (it's been too cold to open it!) and Lacey sat on my hope chest that my BF built for at least an hour. I have a tree right outside the window so the birds were sitting there, taunting her. Was very cute and I know refer to the window as my "babysitter".
Post some pictures of Gracie! I'm sure she's gotten huge since the last one I saw.
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- Jennifer
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Nice to see your trail of thought hasn't changed since I left LOL
Hi MAGS!!!!! 
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Lana_Marie
Proud Mommy to Bentley Taylor
Born May 12, 2004 9lbs, 3oz
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was snickering as he reported this. He said, "This is news I could do without!" Made me furious. Wish I could curse him with it for a week or two. Then he wouldn't be laughing!
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