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Well, now I’ve seen everything. The Merriam-Webster dictionary has actually caved to the growing Quake III geek community and listed “w00t” as “an expression of joy,” or “It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all.” Interestingly, www.thinkgeek.com, is selling T-shirts with the word “w00t” printed on them. “The English language is becoming more and more a globalised language every year,” said Paul Payack, the President of Global Language Monitor. This is true, but somehow, I can’t help thinking that the famous John Keats would never have said “A thing of beauty is a w00t forever.”  "w00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.
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.
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| Going Like Sixty on Dec 12, 07 2,882 Trends 1,499 Comments |
The irony is that there is site called woot.com that sells one item a day - kinda cool - but they spun off another site called shirt.woot.com
You would have thought they would have been all over this first. |
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