It is all right, m'lud, you need never again struggle to remember what Gazza is. Along with boxer Frank Bruno and naturalist David Bellamy, footballer Paul Gascoigne has become officially unfamous.
Despite his well publicised brushes with injury and alcohol, it has become possible to pick up the odd newspaper and find no mention at all of Gazza.
That, by the brutal logic of the Collins Concise Dictionary, has sealed his fate: he joins the ranks of the didn't-he-used-to-be? A vindication at last of high court judge Jeremiah Harmann, who at the height of his fame inquired if Gazza was perhaps an Italian opera.
The dictionary, as well as charting the rise and fall of new words - economy class syndrome, digibox, white van man, cyber sex, name and shame and terminator seed are all in for the first time, giving a vision of life in the 21st century - monitors the fleeting fame of personalities so well known their names appear without further explanation.
Only last week Kate Adie, the foreign correspondent once famous for grace and pearl earrings under fire, was worrying in an interview that she had been nudged out the limelight by the BBC to make way for younger, prettier reporters.
She will find her fears confirmed: in the two years since the last edition she has been dropped. The top broadcasters are now cooks - Nigella Lawson, Gary Rhodes and Jamie Oliver are all in - game show hosts such as Chris Tarrant and Anne Robinson, and comedians: Sacha Baron-Cohen scores a double, listed in his own name and as his alter ego, Ali G.
Gazza will find the football slot has gone to David Beckham, and his wife Victoria. New showbusiness entries include George Clooney, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Harry Potter has shot JK Rowling in, and Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth, joins her.
Madonna not only keeps the place she has held for a decade, but is joined by her husband, director Guy Ritchie.
Publishing director Jeremy Butterfield explained yesterday that the frequency with which names occur is tracked in a 420m word data base. Fall below the cut-off point and Britney Spears could be next year's Hayley Mills (gone, along with Ronnie Barker and Betty Boothroyd.)
"We tend to be much slower to drop words, because somebody could be reading a 30-year-old novel and need to look up a meaning, but with names we have to be ruthless," Mr Butterfield said.
Online and CD Rom dictionaries were predicted to spell the end of centuries of printed dictionaries. But sales and use of both have proved very disappointing, Mr Butterfield said, and Collins has no plans to abandon paper: the print run for this edition, 16,000 entries for £17.99, is 60,000 copies.
Phrases of modern life
Presenteeism Persistently working longer hours and taking fewer holidays than contracted.
Prairie dogging All the heads in an open plan office popping over the partitions to investigate a commotion.
Planet Zog Out of it, far removed from reality.
Large it Enjoy oneself extravagantly.
Terminator seed Genetically modified seed that produces sterile plants.
Economy class syndrome Not in technical usage. Deep vein thrombosis in person travelling for long periods in cramped conditions.
Snickometer TV cricket commentator's device of microphone near the stumps, to reveal if bat and ball have made contact.
