Word Of The Year
The 2006 word of the year is "plutoed," chosen by the American Dialect Society in their meeting last Friday.
The word means to be "demote or devalue someone or something," which is in accordance with the big news in October 2006 of Pluto's demotion from planet to "less-than-planet" in the solar system.
The runner up was "climate canary," which is "a species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon."
At least Pluto got some recognition this year. Instead of being recognized for its hip, "rebellious" orbit, it got shot down to a "has been" and a "dwarf planet."
It got plutoed.
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