December 12, 2007
W00t the Heck?
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year is …. “W00t”.
I’m not a great language purist (I’m a Webster’s New World fan, and don’t much care for the overly prescriptivist American Heritage), but I don’t know that I would call this interjection from leetspeak a ‘word’ exactly.
I’d have gone with ‘waterboarding’ myself.
Posted by Michael : December 12, 2007 09:02 AM | Kultcha | TechnoLinks
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Posted by: Matthew at December 12, 2007 11:58 AMI've Woot'd, but I wouldn't Waterboard.
Posted by: Chuck at December 12, 2007 02:22 PMw00t aye, i think 2001 just called and want their word back.
Seriously that one is old and semi-retired now days.
Posted by: SEO at December 12, 2007 10:07 PMI can't believe they trace that word to gamers. It's clearly not the case for anyone with any knowledge of 'leetspeak'. It's much older then that, and comes from hacker circles, and meant "woohoo, i got root".
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