“W00t” is what locavores type to each other when they finally find the locally grown buttered radishes they had been craving. Additionally w00t (a combination of numbers and letters (known as “l33t” for elite)) is Merriam-Webster’s 2007 Word of the Year. W00t is especially compelling because:

“It shows a really interesting thing that’s going on in language. It’s a term that’s arrived only because we’re now communicating electronically with each other…” – John Morse, President of Merriam-Webster

Daylife readers may recall Grant Barrett, of Way With Words fame, reminding us: “…No dictionary or august body makes words ‘official.’ There’s no such thing as an ‘official’ word. It’s either used, or it isn’t.”

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