"Plutoed" Named 2006 Word of the Year by American Dialect Society
From the ADS web site:
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.
Other winners (in selected categories)
+ Most Useful: climate canary, 2nd place: "Data Valdez"
+ Most Unnecessary: SuriKat
+ Most Euphemistic: waterboarding
+ Most Likely to Succeed: YouTube (as a verb)
+ Least Likely to Succeed: grup
The news release also contains a list of previous words of year including the 2005 winner: "truthiness."
In 1995 the words of the year (tie) were "World Wide Web" and "newt" (to make aggressive changes as a newcomer).
The first ADS Word of the Year in 1990 was "bushlips" (insincere political rhetoric).
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