Is it lunchtime yet? My stomach is growling so loud I'm afraid I might get a ticket for harboring a wild animal in my office!
Dunno if anyone ever heard the George Carlin skit about the stomach growling, but he used the term "borborygmi" in the skit. I always thought it was a made-up word, but turns out it really is a medical term. The noise occurs when our stomach squeezes together trying to mix and digest food but there is no food. The stomach juices move around and cause the growling noise.
I have some very loud borborygmi going this morning!
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Guess I'll have to go to dictionary.com to learn how to pronounce it.
You pronounce it just like it sounds.
That clears it up...
bore-bow-rig-me. see. Just like it sounds. Didn't they teach phonetics in grade school? LOL
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