Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic W00t! Merriam-Webster's word of the year!

No, really. It's "w00t." With two zeros.

http://www.m-w.com/info/07words.htm

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1155159520071212

It's not in the official dictionary yet, but odds are it will be soon enough.

That's so funny. I liked another of the words, too - blamestorm. It's like brainstorm, only you brainstorm in order to agree on who to put the blame on.

Ann

Blamestorm is way cooler, I think. Anyway, why do you have to spell w00t with two zeros?

This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ("leet," or "elite") speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double "o" in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team"—again stemming from the gaming community.

Quoted from the first link ^_^