"Plutoed" Voted 2006 Word of the Year

[Benjamin Zimmer]

CNN coverage:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/07/word.of.the.year/


On 1/5/07, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
>
> In its 17th annual words of the year vote--the longest-running vote
> of its kind in the English-speaking world--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.
>
> See the press release for full information, including all nominated
> words and vote tallies.
>
> http://www.americandialect.org/WOTY2006

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