I Guess I Need A New Dictionary...

...because according to my old dictionary something needs to actually "break" a "record" before it could be called "record breaking." Obviously, that's not true anymore:

USA Today leads with word that the more than 20 deaths caused by tornadoes in the United States this weekend pushed an already bad year into record-breaking territory. So far, 98 people have been killed by tornadoes since the beginning of 2008, which makes it the deadliest year thus far since 1998 and the seventh-deadliest since 1950.

Wow, the seventh deadliest of the last 58 years. That would place it in the top 13th percentile.

I'll call the Guinness World Records people.

Just think, all of those kids getting a B+ on a final exam this month can inform their parents and friends that they are in "record breaking territory."