Wikipedia is not exactly where one turns for"factual" information. By it's very definition, colloquialisms are just that: coloquial. A slang term doesn't necessarily have an official spelling. I'll give you the same advice AMonger gave me the other day when I started to embark on a subject I had no business commenting on: "Stick to commenting about what you know whatever that is"...
First [in post 37] it was the 'liberal elitists' taking away your human rights - now, it's the government. What next: aliens? Or maybe gremlins? Wait: I know: it's the Illuminati, right?
This is more than a bit uncalled for.
Muttly, have you heard? The liberal elites [of the 1700's] created the government.