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“Plutoed” Voted 2006 Word of the Year

January 5th, 2007 Comments Off on “Plutoed” Voted 2006 Word of the Year

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.

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