pluton

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/21/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> More on "pluton" here:
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> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003481.html

And even more here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003491.html

Looks like the astronomers are backing off "pluton", so it won't be
such a good WOTY candidate after all. And "Plutonian object" just
doesn't have the same ring to it.


--Ben Zimmer

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