"Plutoed" has been chosen as word of the year for 2006 by the American Dialect Society, beating "climate canary" in a run-off vote.
If you have been "plutoed" you have been demoted or devalued, just as happened to the former planet Pluto when its status was downgraded.
A "climate canary" is something whose poor health indicates a looming environmental catastrophe.
This is the 17th time ADS members have voted to choose a word of the year.
You probably remember the Pluto debate from earlier this year when Pluto was demoted as a planet. Here are a few of the other words that were in the running:
flog - an advertisement disguised as a blog or web log
prohibited liquids - "fluids that cannot be transported by passengers on airplanes"
macaca - "an American citizen treated as an alien"
