Glancing through CBC.CA!
There is a section on their homepage called “diversions”. When you just need to sit back and see the world from a new (and often wierd) perspective, this is the place to go. Check out the following:
ANAHEIM, California (AP) – Pluto is finally getting some respect – from wordsmiths.
“Plutoed” was chosen 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting on Friday.
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 did not meet its definition of a planet.
“Our members believe the great emotional reaction of the public to the demotion of Pluto shows the importance of Pluto as a name,” said society President Cleveland Evans. “We may no longer believe in the Roman god Pluto, but we still have a sense of personal connection with the former planet.”
The rest of the article goes on about words like “murse” and “flog”. The one most interesting to those of you with philisophical and theological minds is “truthiness” defined by television satirist Stephen Colbert as “truth that comes from the gut, not books.” A few decades back we had “true truth” from Francis Schaeffer which would be the almost opposite — truth that is given by God and not just how we feel after having jalapeno peppers and beans!