I don’t think it’s that interesting that ‘w00t’ was Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. After all, it was an internet poll, and you know how those things can get freeped. And I thought their putative etymology (We owned the other team) sounded hell dubious.
No, what I liked was that Pecksniffian is an actual word with no sexual connotations whatever. I’m going to be working that one into a conversation near me.
If you want words of the year, leave it to the pros at the American Dialect Society. They’ll be meeting in January to settle the matter so we can all palliate our logovoric proclivities.
14 December 2007 at 10:54 pm
oh. I always thought it meant ‘want one of those’.
ok.
15 December 2007 at 1:45 am
I just thought it was an exclamation of joy. *shrugs*
15 December 2007 at 3:21 pm
Woefully overwrought obstreperous theologians.