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Old 01-09-2007, 05:33 AM   #164
Urbane Guerrilla
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Not a mispro, but the American Dialect Society, which keeps an eye on the evolution of the language, voted the verb "to Pluto" as their je-ne-sais-quoi ineffable word of the year. It means to demote or devalue someone or something. It won out over such runners-up as "climate canary," an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon, and "murse" for a man's purse, and "flog" for a fake blog. "Macaca" gets a definition: an American citizen treated like an alien.
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