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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 19, 1993                   TAG: 9302190247
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: WENDI GIBSON RICHERT
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

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CALL IT MCDICTIONARY

It is likely you've met a few bubbas in your time. Heck, you might even be a bubba.

So what do we know that Random House Webster's College Dictionary doesn't? Go ahead, pick it up, dust it off and thumb your way to the B's.

Stop right there - between "bubaline" and "bubble." What's missing?

According to Webster's, nobody is a bubba. Not even President William Jefferson Clinton.

Rest assured, this oversight will be addressed later in the next edition of Webster's. Thousands of words and phrases that have become part of American vernacular are expected to be added, including "bubba."

Others vying for linguistic legitimacy are:

dumpie - downwardly mobile professional

flavor-of-the-month - topic of intense, especially temporary, interest

grumpie - grown-up mature professional

no-brainer - something easy to understand

Mc - a prefix indicating mass market, bland or lowbrow, such as "McJournalism"

If and when "bubba" is officially recognized in the next dictionary, Random House editors say it will mean "redneck or good ol' boy, esp. in the Southern U.S."

As if we didn't know.

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