Friday, December 21, 2007
W00T!
Every year Meriam-Webster (a dictionary publisher) ask people to vote for the word they think should get the title "Word of the year". Previous winners has been words like "blog" and "integrity" but this year the winner is from the l33t language. As the title on this post already has reviled, the word of the year is; "WOOT".
A direct translation of the word, in my head anyway, would be "what". But it is also used as expressing joy, similair to the word "yay" :) It can also, and this information was new to me, be short for "we owned the other team". Ive noticed that The Ellen Show had a whole "W00t" theme in November, so this word isn't only for hardcore gamers anymore and deserves the title as word of the year.
Number two most popular word was "Facebook", which i personally always mix up with "Myspace", so it turns into "Myface"! So im not a big fan of that word, BUT we do have a Tiger group on Facebook, so it is worth mentioning anyway.
If i had known about this little contest i would definitely have voted for "Yarr" ?)
# posted by Officer @ 11:27 AM 
