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Old 08-January-2007, 03:33 PM
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San Jose Mercury: "Plutoed" chosen 2006 word of the year by dialect society
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I'm sorry, but that's stupid (I'm directing that at the dialect society, not 01101001). I have never heard anyone say "plutoed", even those against pluto's change in status. It is one thing to make up new words, but it is another thing if no one actually uses them.
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