The 2007 'Word of the Year' is...w00t!
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That's not an interjection from the reporter. The exclamation "w00t" was chosen by Merriam-Webster's online users as 2007's Word of the Year.
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Overall, the industry did several things right and wrong this year. But here's what Network World readers, columnists, bloggers and testers say are the absolute smartest and dumbest moves of 2007 -- and why they matter.
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The new Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, which will go on sale this fall, will include new words. One of these is ginormous, a combination of the words "gigantic" and "enormous." It was picked as favorite word not in the dictionary by vi...
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w00t! Comments Hello and welcome to the last comments roundup of the year. It's been a good one, with many wits and twits showing how wise or otherwise they are. We start with the latest news on a person who has become something of an institution around here (no, not amanfromMars).â¦
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Blog Declared Word of the Year  US Dictionary Merriam-Webster&rsquo;s has announced that the word &#8220;blog&#8221; is their word of the year in their annual pronouncement of the Top 10 words of 2004, which also bizarrely included the words cicada and defenestration. Webster&rsquo;s defines a blog as &#8220;a Web site that contains ...
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Hot competition for word of the year Lovers of the English language in all its glory have until 31 January to vote for the online Macquarie Dictionary word of the year from a spendid selection of neologisms and rather more familiar terms.â¦
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That's one small word for astronaut Neil Armstrong, one giant revision for grammar sticklers everywhere.
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Editors of Merriam-Webster announced the most requested definition on the company&#39;s Internet sites during 2004 was a four-letter word -- BLOG.
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Yes, boys and girls, the word for this year is &#39;blog&#39;--that&#39;s blog as in &#39;a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks.
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'Bugger off out the office' FoTW Oh dear, oh dear - it appears CNET's blogging pundits are not actually a legitimate target for us proper hacks, those of us who've done English O-Level and read a couple of novels.â¦
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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The word &quot;Blog&quot; is the word of the year by Merriam-Webster, the renowned American dictionary publisher. According to Merriam-Webster, the word &quot;blog&quot;, short for Weblog, is a
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Today&#39;s new word, for all you dictionary freaks, is &quot;spim&quot;. Spam + IM (Instant Messaging) = Spim. IM Spam. And for many IM companies it is the bane of their existence requiring increasingly aggressive filtering and block list capabilities.
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We don&#39;t have to wait another month to know that ``blog&#39;&#39; is the word of the year. So says Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, which tallied queries to its online dictionary.
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Wired News nominates the sexiest geeks of 2007. Vote and submit your own nominees!
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What's in a word? Maybe more than you think.
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Tycho:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.