"Plutoed" as the 2006 Word of the year.

[sleipnir214]

The American Dialect Society has chosen plutoed, meaning "to demote or devalue someone or something" as its 2006 Word of the Year.

Here is a link to a PDF of their press release, which includes other submissions and the voting by the ADS membership:

http://www.americandialect.org/Word-of-the-Year_2006.pdf

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[donbott]

I hadn't heard of the word before but I like it. It sounds almost like expectorating. It could also be a synonym for "munsoned" from King Pin

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[Grenage]

Hmm, not so sure about that one. "Climate Canary" and "Lactard" make me chuckle though!


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[AlexCuse]

I like it! I might try to work it into my vocabulary a bit.

I use 'munsoned' all the time. Mostly for a particular adjective/past tense verb that I would not want to type on this site.

It is a good thing I do use it, because if I said the other it might get me plutoed ;-)

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