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

From: Karin Hughes <x377835_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:04:17 -0800
Message-ID: <BAY105-F376A20CFF69304FDAFC46FBAB20_at_phx.gbl>

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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