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w00t the he11?

December 12, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Buzz, Online Marketing

Mirriam-Webster has chosen their Word of the Year.

The word is w00t.

I’m watching CNN Headline News explain the meaning right now.

John Morse, president of Merriam-Webster, told the Associated Press that the selection of "w00t" "shows a really interesting thing that’s going on in language. It’s a term that’s arrived only because we’re now communicating electronically with each other."

Do you find it a little odd that the dictionary company is choosing an obscure word as the word of the year? I mean, I know what it means and so do most of my friends…but that’s because I’m a computer geek!

Did w00t hit the MySpace kiddie scene and I missed it? They’re already typing LiKe ThIs wITh ThE CaPs (how do they do that with any speed? I type 92wpm and doing the upper/lowercase thing kills my speed.) But if the 106 million and counting people of MySpace embraced w00t while I wasn’t looking that could explain it.

All I know for sure is if I had my say, the word would have been l33t (also spelled 133+)- it’s long overdue.* It’s even mentioned in Merriam-Webster’s article on the 2007 word of the year. The entry can be found HERE.

Do you have a favorite nonsensical word that you think should have made it as the coveted Word of the Year? If so, let me know in the comments section. Please also give me a definition. I don’t want to spend the next year on www.urbandictionary.com trying to find it.

*For those of you that don’t want to go over to the Merriam-Webser site - 133t = leet = elite (more geek talk from back in the day. Maybe I should just get a walker now and start learning how to play shuffleboard. I am gettin OLD!)

Some other words from the top ten that didn’t get chosen:

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