Merriam Webster's Word of the Year

[justsomedude]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22205339/?GT1=10645

Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions for an alternative word?

Comments

[if_by_sea]

w00t is so 2003

[justsomedude]

I was using it in '97, along with "uber" and "gan," the latter of which (fortunately) didn't really catch on.

Is this some sort of publicity stunt, y'think?

[kanucklehead]

i kind of shudder when i hear people use that word in regular speech.

that and americans who say "arse." i just don't get it.