[meteorite-list] Pluto's Demotion Tapped as 2006 Word of the Year
Karin Hughes
x377835 at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 10 11:04:17 EST 2007
Gary:
Or, put a more accurate way, kind of like what has happened to this country
since the Chimp took over.
K.
>On 10 Jan 2007 at 06:05, Gary K. Foote wrote:
>Kind of like what is about to happen to George Bush's plans for the middle
>east - Plutoed by the Democrats.
>[Meteorite Content] Has anyone seen the new comet in the sky yet? It was
>shown on the tube this morning and it looks like it could get quite
>spectacular! Maybe it'll drop a meteorite on my house. I'm only 250 miles
>from NJ! lol
>Gary http://www.meteorite-dealers.com
On 8 Jan 2007 at 23:56, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
>http://www.space.com/news/ap_070108_plutoed_word.html
>
>ANAHEIM, California (AP) - Pluto is finally getting
>some respect - from wordsmiths.
>"Plutoed'' was chosen 2006 Word of the Year by
>the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting on
>Friday.
>To "pluto'' is "to demote or devalue someone or
>something'' much like what happened to the former
>planet last year when the General Assembly of the
>International Astronomical Union decided Pluto did
>not meet its definition of a planet...
>The 117-year-old organization includes linguists,
>grammarians, historians and independent scholars.
>In conducting the vote, members do so for fun and
>not in any official capacity of inducting words into
>the English language.
>
>Sterling K. Webb
>PS: If only the IAU operated the same way...
>
>
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