Thw w00t hoot ;p
p2pnet news | Games:-The Merriam-Webster Word of the Year is … unpronounceable.
That’s how HeraldNet sums up the dictionary’s selection of ‘w00t’ as THE word for 2007.
It’s a, “hybrid of letters and numbers, used by gamers as an expression of happiness, joy, and excitement,” explains the Wikipedia.
But as SPOnG sees it:
“In the United States this week makers of a famous dictionary successfully managed to get a whole bunch of young gaming-type people to visit its website.
“It achieved this by placing a word at the top of its list of ‘Words of 2007′ – brilliant!”
Here’s how Merriam-Webster defines w00t:
w00t (interjection) expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay”
w00t! I won the contest
W00t! 
Also See:
HeraldNet – The Word of the Year is … unpronounceable, December 12, 2007
SPOnG – Dictionary Gets Youngsters to Its Website: w00t!, December 12, 2007
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December 12th, 2007 at 9:52 am
w00t ??????????
if they put that in the dictionary then that would indicate a major decrease in IQ over at Webster.