‘W00T’: WORD OF THE YEAR
The popular online gaming expression w00t has been voted ‘Word Of The Year’ for 2007 by the Mirriam-Webster dictionary.
According to the dictionary, the interjection is defined as “expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay”. For example: “w00t! I won the contest!”.
The colloquial use of the word facebook as a verb (i.e. “Have you facebooked those photos from the party last weekend?”) took out second place, showing just how much online culture impacts the written language today.
The complete top ten was made up of the following words:
1. w00t
2. facebook
3. conundrum
4. quixotic
5. blamestorm
6. sardoodledom
7. apathetic
8. Pecksniffian
9. hypocrite
10. charlatan
