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Plutoed... it's a word

Not only a word, but the 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society.

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.

Some of the other words are also pretty funny. Looks like the ADS has a sense of humor.

Most Useful—climate canary: an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon.

Most Creative—lactard: a person who is lactose-intolerant… actually this is kind of mean.

Most Unnecessary—SuriKat: the supposed nickname of the baby girl of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Most Outrageous—Cambodian accessory: Angelina Jolie’s adopted child who is Cambodian.

     …and the runner up in this category (which had to be mentioned) was firecrotch: a person with red pubic hair.

Most Euphemistic—waterboarding: an interrogation technique in which the subject is immobilized and doused with water to simulate drowning; reported to be used by U.S. interrogators against terrorism detainees.

Most Likely to Succeed— YouTube: as a verb, to use the YouTube web site or to have a video of one’s self be posted on the site.

Least Likely to Succeed— grup: a Gen-Xer who does not act his or her age.

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