'Woot'

‘Woot’ Named Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year

About Richard Clark

Richard H. Clark (Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief) has a Bachelors in Theology from the Baptist College of Florida and has a Master of Arts in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, Ky., where he is the classroom technology manager at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also the managing editor of Gamechurch and a freelance writer for Kill Screen, Unwinnable, Bit Creature, and other outlets.
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  • Alan Noble

    W00t!!!1!11!!!

    Well, somebody had to do it.

    I don’t mind this at all since it’s not a corruption of a different word. It’s not teh, or brb, or l8er.

    The day when lawl gets in the dictionary is the day I….well, I’ll think of something.

  • http://nowheresville.us The Dane

    Funny, they spelled it wrong. w00t. not woot. I have now lost all faith in the dictionary as a bastion of good spelling.

  • http://ohbuoyancy.net Reese

    Actually The Dane, Merriam-Webster spelled it correctly w00t with zeros, but Wired spelled it wrong.

    See Merriam-Webster.

  • http://nowheresville.us The Dane

    My faith is restored!! Boo Wired.

  • Alan Noble

    Now I have lost all faith in Wired.