Their dad died of Covid - now they're trying to get the clever word he made up into the dictionary
The Kriegers at Boston Harbor in 1988 for a ferry trip. In the early aughts, Hilary Krieger was sitting in her parents' Boston, US home, when her friend accidentally squirted himself with an orange slice. "I said, 'Oh, the orange just orbisculated,' " she recalls. "And he said, 'It did what?'" The two made a $5 bet, and Krieger gleefully grabbed the family dictionary. She flipped to the "O" section and stared at the spot on the page where "orbisculate" should have been. "My first thought is, 'What's wrong with this dictionary?'" she says. Aghast, Krieger burst into her dad's study and told...
Source: stuff.co.nz