w00t crowned word of the year

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http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1155159520071212?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
By Jason Szep
BOSTON (Reuters) - "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary.
Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
It's like saying "yay," the dictionary said.
"It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all," Merriam-Webster said.
Visitors to Merriam-Webster's Web site were invited to vote for one of 20 words and phrases culled from the most frequently looked-up words on the site and submitted by readers.
Runner-up was "facebook" as a new verb meaning to add someone to a list of friends on the Web site Facebook.com or to search for people on the social networking site.
Merriam-Webster President John Morse said "w00t" reflected the growing use of numeric keyboards to type words.
"People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 for O; 3 for E; 7 for T; and 4 for A," he said. "This is simply a different and more efficient way of representing the alphabetical character."
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all i can say is... wow.... pwnd should have one :monster:
 
Pwnd, pwn, or p00ned should've gotten it instead. Meh. D=
At least it wasn't Lulz or noob...
 
I'm not surprised at all. It is rather popular. I've heard many people say it in real life.
 
I used to hear it all the time on Runescape. Its actually the first time i heard it. I was randomly walking around 2 years ago and this guys like w00t!!! i was like whats that mean and hes like it means yay xD
 
...? People go W00T in rl, too... Suprised you didn't know that.
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English is not my the official language of my country I can never hear slang like this in RL. I've seen it on forums, but was never bothered about it's meaning :/
 
I have barely even seen 'w00t' used online much nowadays... So I think whatever decided this was a fraud or sometihing... I, myself, haven't used 'w00t' besides in this post, since 2006.
 
Kit Fisto said:
ya but then they get called nerds :D
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It's not really nerdy....In fact most 'nerdy' things aren't that nerdy anymore... Being a nerd has become very popular over the last few years. World of Warcraft helped that. =/ Most memes you see online, and memes shown in media have originally started in 4chan and Something awful. The word w00t isn't nerdy.

Matt Bellamy said:
Is anyone else not even slightly worried by this?
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Yes =/
 
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