| Each January, the folks at the American Dialect Society vote for the Word of the Year.
The 2006 winner is: PLUTOED. 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 full press release, including all other nominations and vote tallies, here. |
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