Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007

Submitted by kingrat on Mon, 2007-12-17 05:02.

w00t

or is that properly w00t! ?

runners-up: facebook, conundrum, quixotic, blamestorm

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Woot, means "Wow, loot!", originating among pen-and-paper Dungeons and Dragons role playing game playing nerds in the 80s... adopted by the online gaming community.

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Jakob said on December 17th 2007

A word of the year...very nice. The newer words are interesting additions to the language, but I'm happy to see some older ones made the cut; I've long been a fan of 'quixotic'. I could think of a few uses for 'Pecksniffian', too.

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mwilliams said on December 22nd 2007

I've always liked serendipity...

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Jakob said on December 23rd 2007

Word of the year 1999?

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hansdekker said on December 24th 2007