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• [1] Richard Walker from San Francisco December 13, 2007 - 04:30AM

  Pwn, Pwned, Pwner - "all your base are belong to us"

  LOL Catz - "I can haz Kibblz now plez?"

  Durn kids! grumble grumble

  
  
• [2] perri December 13, 2007 - 08:17AM

  Yesterday I was looking up a word at urbandictionary.com. The first would that came up on the homepage was "w00t". I'd seen it before, but didn't think it warranted its own entry in ANY dictionary.

  
  
• [3] Michael Scott from NYC December 13, 2007 - 08:41AM

  Sheidlower isn't editor in chief of anything. The editor in chief of OED is John Simpson. Sheidlower's merely a figurhead editor who does little work.

  
  
• [4] smedley1 December 13, 2007 - 09:35AM

  TMI Michael Scott

  (Hey! TMI!)

  
  
• [5] Matt W. from Red Hook December 13, 2007 - 09:57AM

  wOOt? If ever an entry deserved the label "nonce word" this would have to be it. Good grief.

  
  
• [6] Katherine Martin from NYC December 13, 2007 - 10:22AM

  John Simpson is indeed Chief Editor of the OED; Jesse Sheidlower's title is Editor-at-large, as stated above. He is responsible for revision of North American entries in the OED. As his colleague, I can assure you that this is in fact a great deal of work.

  Katherine Martin

  Senior Editor, OED

  
  
• [7] Seam from brooklyn December 13, 2007 - 10:45AM

  boring. talk of the nation did this already.

  
  
• [8] Kevin December 13, 2007 - 10:45AM

  That word has been around forever, eh he he.

  No seriously, woot has been around so long they've made a one-item-per-day store out of it.

  
  
• [9] jared from New York NY December 13, 2007 - 10:45AM

  God, who cares. Let's get to the Des Moines debates already...

  
  
• [10] Kevin December 13, 2007 - 10:48AM

  You're clearly not young enough, then. :)

  This is validation of the '80s born generation.

  
  
• [11] peter from midtown December 13, 2007 - 10:48AM

  Ashton Kutcher is the young male celeb with older female.

  
  
• [12] Gary McCardell from chattanooga, tennessee December 13, 2007 - 10:49AM

  please be careful with "milf"; as i understand it, it's an acronym for "mothers i'd like to f***," and is quite common as such in the world of porn.

  
  
• [13] Strath from Fort Greene December 13, 2007 - 10:51AM

  No matter what, I beg you, please do not let the term "GINORMOUS" (the combo of "gigantic" and "enormous") become a real word. I hear so many people say it and it drives me nuts.

  
  
• [14] David from Greenpoint December 13, 2007 - 10:52AM

  I heard a rumor that the word "entheogen" made the OED this year. Anyone know if this is the case?

  
  
• [15] Hemayat from Douglaston, NY December 13, 2007 - 10:52AM

  Its a shame that this is the my first posting ... oh well ... Omar Bin Laden, who is 26 years old and is one of Osama Bin Laden's 12 children, married a 52 year old British woman, his third wife.

  
  
• [16] Richard Walker from San Francisco December 13, 2007 - 10:53AM

  lolcat, from wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat

  
  
• [17] David Latham from NYC December 13, 2007 - 10:53AM

  During the past year there has been a dramatic increase in the use of "fraught", much of which I believe is incorrect. Doesn't it just mean "full of"?

  
  
• [18] Steve from Manhattan December 13, 2007 - 10:53AM

  zOMG ?

  
  
• [19] Robert from NYC December 13, 2007 - 10:55AM

  Vanity sizing: Oprah wears size 2.

  
  
• [20] Ellen Pall from Manhattan December 13, 2007 - 10:55AM

  I am very curious to know if the guest has heard the word "concerning" to mean "troubling" or "disturbing," rather than "about" or "with regard to." I've heard--and read--that "this is a very concerning matter" and "a very concerning trend" this year many times.

  Weren't "Troubling" and "Disturbing" sufficient?

  
  
• [21] Derek from Astoria December 13, 2007 - 10:56AM

  W00t - also Woot. I've been told it's a combination of "Wow" and "Loot" Like "Oh boy!"

  There is also a website call www.woot.com which has "Woot-offs" that sell wholesale stuff in a rapid kind of auction.

  I'm having the worst time with the word "Ninja" - which is used in MMORPG's which means to sneak into an opponents base and steal something without the opponent knowing.. How would that used as an verb? or is it just "Ninja"?

  
  
• [22] Robert from NYC December 13, 2007 - 10:58AM

  Auntler?

  
  
• [23] Mink from Manhattan December 13, 2007 - 10:59AM

  The combination of the two words celebrity and debutante into celebutante have now been combined with retard into celebutarde, being used to describe a society woman who has achieved celebrity through existing as idiotically as possible in her self-created limelight. This is interesting because there have been entire movements to abolish the use of the word "retard"- but apparently it is socially acceptable again, as long as it is combined with another "pseudoword".

  
  
• [24] Leon Freilich from Park Slope December 13, 2007 - 11:11AM

  SAVE THE STORY

  The word of the year,

  If I may be declarative,

  Deserves its own plot--

  The brain-killing "narrative."

  
  
• [25] Francyne Pelchar from nyc December 15, 2007 - 10:12AM

  whole movements to abolish the word retard or its shortened version 'tard? That's a word that's worked its way up from kid speak to adult speak, been around for years. guess those movements must be like the war on drugs.