With 2007 winding down I get the urge to look back at this year and wonder if there’s a way to sum it up in just one word. Dictionary-maker Merriam-Webster has done just that, and their word is w00t! It turns out that it’s not just “l33t-speaking”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet techno-junkies using my favorite bargain word but real people too. M-W’s president, one Mr. John Morse apparently thought it was the perfect choice, blending new technology and linguistic whimsy. For those of you who think this choice to be wholly unorthodox, consider last years choice of “truthiness”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness and be happy it’s not another Colbert reference.
Here’s an “AP article”:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5imcJd2ELqieBlFxBLhBnP5k4juaAD8TFGLM00 about it, and a link to “woot.com”:http://www.woot.com/, your source for heavily discounted crap.