http://www.space.com/news/ap_070108_plutoed_word.html
ANAHEIM, California (AP) - Pluto is finally getting
some respect - from wordsmiths.
"Plutoed'' was chosen 2006 Word of the Year by
the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting on
Friday.
To "pluto'' is "to demote or devalue someone or
something'' much like what happened to the former
planet last year when the General Assembly of the
International Astronomical Union decided Pluto did
not meet its definition of a planet...
The 117-year-old organization includes linguists,
grammarians, historians and independent scholars.
In conducting the vote, members do so for fun and
not in any official capacity of inducting words into
the English language.
Sterling K. Webb
PS: If only the IAU operated the same way...
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