Another top ten

What changed for us in 2009? Almost everything. But where did we really feel some of the most lasting impact? Our vocabulary.

The Top 10 surprisingly high-frequency words of 2009

10. Puder (as in Dr. Mark Puder of CHB)

9. stool

8. "output," for when we wanted to discreetly talk about #9

7. parenteral (as in "nutrition")

6. duoderm

5. Omegaven

4. bilirubin

3. ostomy

2. bowel/gut

1. jejunum - which wins by virtue of also being an amazing Scrabble word.