Editing Jay (section)

==In culture==

===Slang===
The word ''jay'' has an archaic meaning in American slang meaning a person who chatters impertinently.<ref name=Jay20132>{{cite web| title = Jay | quote = An overly talkative person; a chatterbox.| publisher = freedictionary.com| url = http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Jay}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jay|title=Definition of Jay by Merriam-Webster|date=26 October 2024 |publisher=Merriam-Webster, Inc.}}</ref> 

The term ''[[jaywalking]]'' was coined in the first decade of the 1900s to label persons crossing a busy street carelessly and becoming a traffic hazard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jaywalker|title=Definition of Jaywalker by Merriam-Webster|date=28 August 2024 |publisher=Merriam-Webster, Inc.}}</ref> The term began to imply recklessness or impertinent behavior as the convention became established.<ref>{{OED|jay-walker}}</ref>

In January 2014, Canadian author [[Robert Joseph Greene]] embarked on a lobbying campaign among ornithologists in Europe and North America to get Merriam-Websters Dictionary to have a "Jabber of Jays" as an official term under bird groups.<ref>{{cite news|title=Writer lobbies for new word to describe jays|url=http://www.vancourier.com/Writer-lobbies-for-new-word-to-describe-jays-1.776734/|access-date=January 2, 2014|newspaper=Vancouver Courier|date=January 2, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=British Ornithologists' Union: What say ye countrymen to a jabber of jays?|url=http://www.bou.org.uk/what-say-ye-countrymen-to-a-jabber-of-jays/#comments/|access-date=January 6, 2014|journal=Community News|date=January 6, 2014}}</ref>