Forget Pluto: it's "miserabilist" for me.

Some organization I've never heard of, the 117-year-old American Dialect Society, has anointed "plutoed," meaning demoted or devalued, as "word of the year," the BBC reports (via Raw Story).

All of which leads one on a merry clickchase through a recent (meaning just now) addition to YAME's excellent and expanding Work Avoidance directory (see sidebar), the Double-Tongued Dictionary, to an outstanding, if somewhat belated (or forward-looking, depending on your point of view) Christmas riff by the Scotsman's Paul Stokes, containing another new (to me) and oh-so-much better word, "miserabilist":

Modern Christmas has always been about consumerism. It is more consumerist today simply because we are richer. Is that a bad thing? Our Christmas is not shallow. It is a giant celebration of our success. So go on, don't let the Christians, environmentalists, and all the other miserabilists, make you feel guilty for spending time and money on your loved ones. Eat, drink and be merry. You've earned it. Merry Christmas.

And thence to another example in spiked's "Miserabilist of the Year."