The votes are in, and the country’s leading lexographers and linguists have chosen plutoed as the Word of the Year for 2006.
At its 17th annual words-of-the-year vote Friday, the American Dialect Society picked plutoed in a run-off vote against climate canary.
To “pluto” is to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided it no longer met its definition of a planet.
