Words Of The Year

English has to be the most flexible language of all. It has by far the largest number of words, the most grammatical rules and the most abuse of them and and changes fastest of all. So here is an update on the latest in English vocabulary, courtesy of the American Dialect Society's 2006 'words of the year" list. The Society is composed of prominent linguists, lexicographers, and scholars who choose the list in fun...er..to make fun of how English speakers toss about new and often bizarre vocabulary.
This past year the word of the year as selected by by American Dialect is "Plutoed". To "pluto" means to degrade or devalue something, much as what happened this past year when the planet Pluto was reclassified by the International Astronomical Union as something less than a planet.
Plutoed got the first place award but"climate canary" was a close runner-up. You do know what climate canary means? It came from the trendy global warming people and refers to a species or organism whose poor health or declining numbers is being caused by an environment catastrophe like global warming (I think everything from headaches to gas pains is also blamed on the all encompassing global warming nonsense).
In the MOST USEFUL WORD category for the past year, climate canary was declared winner of that, but we have such goodies as "flog" (a fake blog created by a company to promote a product it produces) and "boomeritus" (injuries to the Baby Boomers that are attributed to their advancing age) that made the list.
In the MOST CREATIVE category "lactard" was the winner. A lactard is supposed to be someone who is lactose intolerant to milk. Lactose intolerant was the former term for it and it makes me sick to my stomach (but I am not lactarded) to see it replaced with "lactard". The infamous impregnating bum, Kevin Federline, Britney Spears soon to be ex is responsible for one runner-up for this category, "K-Fed".
Winner of the MOST UN NECESSARY new word category is "SuriKat". It is supposedly to be the nickname of the little girl born to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. If that child is called that even once she will surely turn into a woman as weird as is her dad. Finishing as runner-ups were "the decider" (what George Bush calls himself when he acts like a dictator and now taken to mean anyone who makes the decisions for other decision makers) and Fox lips (lips colored and lined with makeup to seem more prominent, which is often used by sexy female news anchors on Fox News broadcasts).
The MOST OUTRAGEOUS word category was won because most outrageous actress, Angelina "Give me an African baby" Jolie. That winner is "Cambodian accessory" (Angelina's adopted African baby is said to be her latest fashion accessory). The runner up for most outrageous word is "sudden jihad syndrome", an outburst of violence from a seemingly stable and normal Muslim. But I like two others that got votes for most outrageous, "tramp stamp" (a tattoo on a woman's upper butt), "firescrotch" (a woman with red public hair).
There were other categories too, but I don't want to be the one who "plutoed" the new words and cause a "sudden jihad syndrome" right here in my mailbox.
Sigh...I wish people would just start speaking English again