Brian Damage
12-16-2007, 06:45 PM
In 2005 the American Dialect Society voted Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," meaning "the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true." A year later, Miriam-Webster Dictionary also picked "truthiness" for word of the year, while the ADS chose "plutoed"; to demote or devalue someone or something.
This time around, Merriam-Webster has picked w00t as 2007's word of the year. Spelled w-zero-zero-t and pronounced "whoot," it is an exclamation of joy that originated in the various realms of role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2007/12/14/can-i-get-a-quot-w00t-w00t-quot.aspx
This time around, Merriam-Webster has picked w00t as 2007's word of the year. Spelled w-zero-zero-t and pronounced "whoot," it is an exclamation of joy that originated in the various realms of role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2007/12/14/can-i-get-a-quot-w00t-w00t-quot.aspx