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The linguists and lexicographers of the American Dialect Society have picked a Word of the Year for 2006, and the winner is ... plutoed.(Brief article)
* The linguists and lexicographers of the American Dialect Society have picked a Word of the Year for 2006, and the winner is ... plutoed. To "pluto" is to demote or devalue a person or thing, as was done to the unfortunate Solar System body of that name at an August 2006 meeting of the International Astronomical Union. Pluto was formerly the ninth planet. Now it is merely a "dwarf planet," ...
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