"wOOt" crowned word of the year

Correction - w00t, not wOOt.

Dumber....and dumber...............and [size=7]dumber[/size]

w00t in honor of the season, y'all.

I'll see your w00t and raise you one... w00t !

w00t?


w00t!

Dammit, why isn't foopdedoo the word of the year? Who do I write to about this?

Why is it w00t and not wOOt?

And what is a woot?

Or wOOt? or w00t?

Or whatever....

the other year, it was bootylicious..

What the fUUk

From the Newsweek site:

W00t's origins are a little murky. Some say it began as a gaming acronym for "We 0wned the 0ther Team," while others speculate that it arose as a combination of wow and loot?-or another version of hoot. Wikipedia credits the Dungeons and Dragons card game that was popular in the 1990s, claiming it emerged as an abbreviation for "Wow, loot!" Still others say it might be for "want one of those," a term for tech-gadget lust. "It's sort of an onomatopoeia," says Bob Ostertag, a San Francisco writer and musician whose latest album?-a collection of computer game music?-is presciently titled "W00t." "It sounds like what you'd say when you feel like how you feel when you say 'W00t!'"

Amid the debate, there is one point of consensus: w00t's categorization as l33t-speak (that's "leet," short for "elite"), the Internet-born language that substitutes numbers for vowels. (L33t?-omg that's hard to type?-began as a way for hackers to thwart text searches for their conversations on online message boards. Here at NEWSWEEK, l33t's legacy is evident in the hoards of obscene junk mail we get each day that aren't filtered out by our corporate firewall. W00t!)

My pick for word of the year was passed over:
"h00trs."