Merriam-Webster has chosen 2007’s ‘word of the year’….and the winner is…
w00t
from the linked Yahoo!News article:
The choice did not make Allan Metcalf, executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, say “w00t.”
“It’s amusing, but it’s limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last,” said Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.
The 2006 pick, “truthiness,” also has its roots in pop culture. It was popularized by Comedy Central satirical political commentator Stephen Colbert.
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yeah, i’m for words. big ones. little ones. complex or simple. lots of syllables or not. new words and old ones.
and mostly, i’m for speaking those words freely.