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

From: Gary K. Foote <gary_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:05:37 -0500
Message-ID: <45A48231.18127.D69C3_at_localhost>

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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