Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Woot for W00t!

Merriam-Webster posted an online poll to ask people to vote for the “2007 Word of the Year”.  The results, revealed today, gave the top prize to “w00t”, also known as “Woot”.  The word is generally used as an exclamation of happiness, the same way someone might use “Yay!” There’s no guarantee that Merriam-Webster will include the word in a future print edition, but it’s a pleasant bit of unexpected news for the folks who own Woot.com.  If you’d like to see the runner-up words, visit Merriam-Webster.com.

In case you were wondering, the Oxford dictionary also has a “word of the year”, but the word is selected by Oxford and not voted on by the general public.  This year’s winning word for Oxford was ”locavore”, which sounds more dignified than “w00t”, but not nearly as exciting.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 12/12 at 05:23 AM
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