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

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:25:41 -0500
Message-ID: <016301c73423$f3eeed50$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

Gota love it!!
Jerry Flaherty
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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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