w00t

It’s about time that the dictionary started recognizing some of the slang that has been created over the last decade or so, but it sounds like some people are not happy about it. In the article entitled "Word-of-the-Year Ritual Pauses for Puzzlement" on person was quotes as saying

We are, however, crossing our fingers that next year Merriam-Webster’s “word of the year” is actually a word. That doesn’t contain numbers. That isn’t shorthand for something else.

Oh well, some people still argue about the fact that ain't is in the dictionary. One of my teachers once said something like "just because it is in the dictionary does not mean it is a word, it just means it is something that people need help defining." How many people know what w00t means? Seems to me that it needs defining, so it needs to be there.