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The American Dialect Society voted "plutoed" (meaning: to demote or devalue someone) as word of the year in 2006. In August of that year, the International Astronomical Union had declassified Pluto as a planet.
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The phrase "mother of all X" became commonly accepted after Saddam Hussein's 1991 speech in which he promised "the mother of all wars". The saying was then declared "Word of the Year" in 1991 by the American Dialect Society
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Gender feminism, defined as "belief that sex roles are social, not biological", was called the Most Unnecessary Word of Year 1992 in annual American Dialect Society's contest.
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Orcas live in complex societies (comparable to elephants & higher primates): the basic unit is the matrilineal family group; pods are 1 to 4 closely-related matrilines that form loose aggregations; clans are pods with similar dialects; a community is set of clans that regularly commingle
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In 2006, in its 17th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted *plutoed* as the word of the year. To "pluto" is to "demote or devalue someone or something".
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For over 25 years, the American Dialect Society has designated terms such as 'mother of all' (1991), 'Not!' (1992), 'morph' (1994), 'subprime' (2007) etc. as Word of the Year
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"app" became "Word of the Year" in 2010 by American Dialect Society
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"whale tail" - when the top of a woman's g-string or thing bikini is visible over her jeans. The look was popularized in the early 2000's and the American Dialect Society named the term the "most creative word" of 2005.
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The American Dialect Society's 'Word of the Year' for 2016 was "dumpster fire"
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Since 1990, the American Dialect Society has voted for a new word/slang term that is "Most Likely to Succeed", and are pretty much always right
