On 21 Aug 2003 at 13:04, Johne Cook wrote > If it absolutely *must* be a word, shouldn't it also assume the > inclusion of "bada-boom"? Not so much assume as believe... (from Yahoo News): LONDON (Reuters) - "Bada bing" -- the catchphrase made famous by hit television show "The Sopranos (news - Y! TV)" -- has earned a place alongside 3,000 other new entries in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, published on Thursday. "Reality TV," "SARS (news - web sites)" and "Muggle," someone lacking magic powers from the "Harry Potter (news - web sites)" series of novels by author J.K. Rowling (news - web sites), have also been added to the tome, the largest one-volume dictionary of English, the book's publishers said. The Oxford dictionary describes "bada bing" (also "bada bing bada boom") as an exclamation to emphasize that something will happen effortlessly and predictably. The word is also the name of a strip club in the mob drama. Michele Riccio mr1 at rcosta.com