Friday, November 16, 2012
American Dialect Society
In its 17th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “plutoed” as the word of the year, in a run-off 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 Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet.
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January 5, 2007
ReplyDelete“Plutoed” Voted 2006 Word of the Year by American Dialect Society
American Dialect Society
Allan Metcalf, Executive Secretary
English Department
MacMurray College
Jacksonville, Illinois
http://www.americandialect.org/Word-of-the-Year_2006.pdf
Fukushima-san, my football coach in high school, liked this so much.
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ReplyDeletewater
verb ( GIVE WATER ) /ˈwɔː.tər//ˈwɑː.t ̬ɚ/
Definition
• [T] to pour water on to plants or the soil that they are growing in
I’ve asked my neighbour to water the plants while I’m away.
• [T] to give an animal water to drink
The horses had been fed and watered.
(Definition of water verb (GIVE WATER) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)