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'w00t' Named 2007 Word of the Year

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-waiting-for-slashdotted-as-a-verb dept.

bukharin writes "'w00t', the "small word that packs a pretty big punch", has been named Word of the Year for 2007 by dictionary gurus Merriam-Webster. Visitors to the Merriam-Webster website were asked to vote for one of 20 commonly searched words and phrases. Facebook was the runner-up. Previously honored geek words include google (runner-up in 2006) and blog (winner in 2004)."

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  1. You'd think that... by PinkyDead · · Score: 5, Informative

    Merriam-Webster's word of the year would be in their dictionary.

    http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/w00t. Odd that.

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  2. Re:WTF? by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Informative

    They must just now be discovering Microsoft's leet speak tutorial archives.

    Microsoft got boring though, now that page simply redirects here instead.

    It's interesting to follow the revision histories on that page on archive.org. It started out pretty much as my first link, then they removed the "illegal activities" section probably out of political correctness and not wanting to damage their reputation, and now there's no info on leetspeak at all.

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