http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_us/word_of_the_year

12/11/2007 11:49:13 PM

w00t!

12/11/2007 11:50:32 PM

Quote :

"W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph"

12/11/2007 11:51:53 PM

boo

12/11/2007 11:52:45 PM

Quote :

"Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology."

aha

12/11/2007 11:53:01 PM

Kinda cool how they've been adding popular words to the dictionary lately. Might start getting out of hand though.

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 11:57 PM. Reason : ]

12/11/2007 11:56:21 PM

i read that article earlier today on CNN or something and i loved how they were all talking like they were hip for knowing this 'cool new thing' when that word has been around freaking forever to my n3rdy knowledge.

i remember seeing it for the first time my sophomore year in HS playing counter strike (like 8 years ago) and wondering what the hell people were saying. and people were probably using it before then haha.

[Edited on December 12, 2007 at 12:04 AM. Reason : ]

12/12/2007 12:04:10 AM

counterstrike, shit people used to say that when they played Quake

12/12/2007 12:07:43 AM

i never played games online before counterstrike i just played it online at school after school so that was my first encounter with it hehe

12/12/2007 12:10:26 AM

i would prefer

pwnt or n00b

12/12/2007 12:13:17 AM

Didn't jackleg or someone else on TWW own w00t.com about 3-4 years ago?

Sucks to be you if you lost that domain name.

Looks like it was sold on eBay sometime around 8/2004.

[Edited on December 12, 2007 at 12:17 AM. Reason : l]

12/12/2007 12:14:19 AM

What an arbitrary stab in the dark that was. Might as well of picked lolcat.

Quote :

" For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match. "

Why not just make reference to

12/12/2007 12:18:24 AM