American Dialect Society Word of 2006

As I mentioned last month (Webster’s (and Webster’s) 2006 Word of the Year), the American Dialect Society members vote on a word of the year.

For 2006, they’ve just chosen the word plutoed (demoted or devalued, as the now dwarf planet was in August).

Plutoed seems too much like vogue slang (in and out of fashion quickly) to be a word of the year. Perhaps last year’s winner, truthiness, seemed so as well, but it has a television show (The Colbert Report) using it regularly.