"Subprime" Update

As an addendum to my earlier post about the meaning and misunderstanding of the word subprime. . .

In early 2008, the American Dialect Society named subprime the word of the year for 2007.

Then again, the same group chose plutoed (to be demoted or devalued) as their 2006 word of the year, which goes to show you. . . something, I guess.