Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Don't look now, you've been "Plutoed"!

It was only a matter of time, right? Read on:
In its 17th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “plutoed” as the word of the year, in a run-off against climate canary. To pluto is to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet.

There were actually a lot of great entries in this year's contest. Read the whole rundown here, including winners from past years: http://www.americandialect.org/Word-of-the-Year_2006.pdf

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