[meteorite-list] Pluto's Demotion Tapped as 2006 Word of the Year

[Gerald Flaherty]

Gota love it!!
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:56 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Pluto's Demotion Tapped as 2006 Word of the Year


> 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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