''Plutoed'

As you walk down the street carrying your murse, contemplating your next blog entry - because it's not a flog - does a feeling of truthiness come over you because you know you are about to be plutoed? And if so, do you thank all things good for the existence of the American Dialect Society and its continuing quest to find the word of the year. This year is is plutoed. As MSNBC reports: to "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet. Other contenders this year were "climate canary" (an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon), as well as murse (man's purse), flog (a fake blog that promotes products) and macaca (an American citizen treated as an alien). "Truthiness" was top word last year. The word is credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books." Last month, an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster also declared truthiness to be its word of theyear.The challenge ... today see if you can weave plutoed and truthiness into at least one conversation. (Thanks Vinnie, I managed one!)