Plutoed Named Word of the Year

Posted on January 17, 2007

The BBC reports that the American Dialect Society has voted "Plutoed" as the 2006 word of the year.

"Plutoed" has been chosen as word of the year for 2006 by the American Dialect Society, beating "climate canary" in a run-off vote.
If you have been "plutoed" you have been demoted or devalued, just as happened to the former planet Pluto when its status was downgraded.
A "climate canary" is something whose poor health indicates a looming environmental catastrophe.
This is the 17th time ADS members have voted to choose a word of the year.

You probably remember the Pluto debate from earlier this year when Pluto was demoted as a planet. Here are a few of the other words that were in the running:

flog - an advertisement disguised as a blog or web log

prohibited liquids - "fluids that cannot be transported by passengers on airplanes"

macaca - "an American citizen treated as an alien"