View Full Version : The 2007 Word of the Year is...


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

Ireneparalegal
12-16-2007, 06:47 PM
I thought it was "w00t."

Brian Damage
12-16-2007, 06:52 PM
I thought it was "w00t."


It is

Ireneparalegal
12-16-2007, 06:58 PM
Duh! I didn't read correctly. I seen the first paragraph. :crazy: <<Irene

Brian Damage
12-16-2007, 06:59 PM
Duh! I didn't read correctly. I seen the first paragraph. :crazy: <<Irene


It's all good...w00t!

Ireneparalegal
12-16-2007, 07:00 PM
w00t right back at ya!:lol:

*Pleasant Tomorrow*
12-16-2007, 08:08 PM
wtf? word of the year? It's not even a new thing, people have been saying that for a few years now

Dutabi84
12-16-2007, 10:26 PM
Yeah..I was thinking that I was seeing this word a lot more 3 or 4 years ago, and very little over the last couple years. Odd choice.

dawsongirl
12-16-2007, 10:30 PM
w00t isn't even a word. Words don't have numbers in the middle of them.

TJL
12-16-2007, 11:01 PM
I thought it was "w00t."

"w00t" was plutoed.

;)

EmoJoe
12-17-2007, 04:30 PM
LOL w00t. that word has been popular for years. i love that word :nod:

ive never heard plutoed and truthiness i dont hear often either, though o_O

Cactus Jack
12-17-2007, 09:23 PM
LOL w00t. that word has been popular for years. i love that word :nod:

ive never heard plutoed and truthiness i dont hear often either, though o_O
LOL I know

Cactus Jack
12-17-2007, 09:24 PM
"w00t" was plutoed.

;)
Thats the truthiness!

;)

Ireneparalegal
12-17-2007, 11:45 PM
"Truthiness" sounds like something Cindy Brady (Brady Bunch) would mumble.