[Sci-all-l] Pluto takes its linguistic revenge

[Flora Grabowska]

New word in English, viz. plutoed meaning something downsized or 
downgraded.  It has been chosen as 2006 word of the year by the 
American Dialect Society, beating 'climate canary' for this singular 
honour.  I did not find it yet in OED online nor the Oxford Reference 
Online collection but a quick search in Lexis Nexis finds 40 stories, 
e.g.  It's a small world when you've been Plutoed.

Flora
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