Merriam-Websters word of the year.

Egad.

"...because it blends whimsy and new technology."

Next year's word would be a toss up between fire and wheel except those words are still popular so they're disqualified.

Languagehat posted about woot, and so did Grant Barrett.

Kind sir, could you explain to me what the word "yawpish" means?
So that I might understand what is so special about the word
"wOOt-woot"? ( Except that it is an exclamation of happiness, which might be special enough. )

OneLook does not acknowledge the word. Neither does Urban.

There's a verb, to yawp 'to cry, bark', which is a variant of to yelp. As with many verbs, this, too, has been nominalized (nouned if you'd rather). From there, it is a short hop-skip to adjectival derivation by use of the suffix -ish. That's all conjecture, and tsuwm has suggested elsewhere that it might mean 'noisy, clamorous'.

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me--he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed--I too am untranslatable;
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

-- Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855

Look up w00t with zeroes in UrbanDictionary - 33 definitions go on for pages - or you can link to it from the front page today.

Walt Whitman circa 1891
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."

One might also count the all important "YOP!" from Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who" as a yawp.

I use w00t frequently. aloud.

'sfun.

...maybe my yawp isn't loud enough

Thanks zmjezhd and Alex W for the kind answers about "yawp".
Thanks Myridon for letting me know that the spelling of wOOt sh00ld be w00t. And for the echo of Walt Whitman............

Is it 1855 or 1891? [too lazy to LIU]

either (or both).

-joe (Myr seems to prefer the Deathbed Edition) friday

TVR, in retribution it seems, has instituted its own poll regarding w00t, to wit:

W00t should be included in the next, the twelfth, edition of Merriam-Webster's.

0 If it is, I'll burn my copy.
0 Good Lord, I hope not.
0 Sure, why not?
0 W00t, w00t!

here's a hotlink should you actually care to vote.

-joe (it's in the free matter) friday

p.s. - the results seem to give a good indication of TVR's.. <ahem> slant.

W00t should be included in the next, the twelfth, edition of Merriam-Webster's.


If it is, I'll burn my copy.: 40%
Good Lord, I hope not.: 40%
Sure, why not?: 10%
W00t, w00t!: 10%

it's a word, it has meaning, it gets used by many people. why shouldn't it be in the dictionary?

Tell that to the boys at TVR, eta -- btw the motto over there is "A society is as lax as its language." You get the picture.

"A society is as lax as its language."

... and a donkey is as tight as his grandma fascist ...

Latest results are 38%, 31%, 15%, 15%. Things are looking up.

>Things are looking up.

I think we must be skewing their results. I wonder if this means that they'll soon shut down their poll?!

-joe (and we're not even subscribers) friday

vote early, vote often.

Webster Online's today:

Word of the Day: wave front
Word of the Hour: Banff
Word of the Minute: intermittently

I'd like to add
Word of the Second: w00t

Costello: The Word of the Minute is intermittent.
Abbott: Yes, but what is it?
Costello: It's intermittent.
Abbott: Yes, of course it is. It changes every minute. But what is it now?
Costello: Intermittent.
Abbott: No, not in a minute, now!
Costello: It already has. It's gone now.
Abbott: I know it's gone but what's the new word?
...

Who's on first?

Costello: void.

Scrabble?

Shoots!

Anna, sorry but your link only gives an error message:

Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
The story or page you were trying to access may have expired.

If you are having trouble...

Here's the information right from the horse's mouth.

Fal thank you for that link

ROTFL!

It's now 44 - 28 - 17 - 11.

hike!

Heres one for eta
w00t
I've got the t-qualiser. A bit of fun!

that's great!

w00t!

Oh, my, my: a new spelling. Let's all to the barricades with the red pencils go ...

maybe it's the British spelling, since he wrote spanner...

spanner...

Bell poinct!