In the past we've seen many computer-focused terms become words of the year and find placement in the dictionary, and this year is no different. Remember last year when "truthiness" (a Stephen Colbert-ism) made it in, along with "google?"
So, here it is, Merriam-Webster's #1 Word of the Year for 2007 based on votes from visitors to their Web site:
w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay"
w00t! I won the contest!
Other words that made up their top-ten-votes list for the year include: facebook, conundrum, quixotic, blamestorm, sardoodle, dom apathetic, Pecksniffian , hypocrite, and charlatan.
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