Merriam Webster just crowned “w00t” as the online Word of the Year 2007.
For those who hear “w00t” for the first time, it is a slang phrase used as a celebratory statement or an exclamation of happiness in the geek community like – “I just cracked the password of my router. w00t!” or “I just got my payment! W00t!”
Like everything else, the word “w00t” too has a Wikipedia entry but the surprising part is that Wikipedia members have proposed to delete the W00t page from Wikipedia database on December 12.
The reason being that there are no facts to verify the origin of the term w00t and that the term has not yet reached general usage. Kind of conflicts with the recent news.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/wikipedia-meaning-of-w00t-merriam-webster/1920/
Reader Comments
my first comment to ur post , woot!
Written by sarv007 on 12.12.07
We tried removing the proposed deletion message. Hope successfully?
Written by Tech For Novices on 12.12.07
Thats cool!. I wonder what would could be ‘woot’ tanslation in hindi or in tamil.
Written by Diya on 12.12.07
w00t! In all honesty though it does sound so silly when you say it out loud lol
Written by Amy on 12.12.07
It’s Dec. 14 and w00t is still alive on Wikipedia.
Written by Joe Bogus on 12.14.07
Can you please link to your source regarding the Wikipedia deletion issue? Thanks.
Written by Eszter on 12.14.07
u wont beleive the number of times ppl use w00t in MMORPG’s.
“ZOMG it dropped. WoOT !”
Written by Alfred on 12.14.07
I think a lot of Wikipedia editors make big deals over nothing, and end up getting things totally wrong.
Written by Sucker on 12.15.07
“…2. w00t was originally an acronym for “we owned other team” but used 1337$p34|< for some of the letters(w00t instead of woot). It is now commonly used as an interjection of joy…”
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Written by Xacur on 12.15.07