Voters at Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007 poll have chosen “w00t” as 2007’s most iconic word. M-W says that the word is a gamer’s acronym for “we own the other team,” but I’m inclined to think that that’s a backronym, a back-formed acronym created to explain a word already in use.
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A foreign language can be a hard thing to deal with. And in singing a foreign language its common to mess up and slaughter it. But here we have a story of a man who in singing a national anthem ended up swapping a letter and giving an entirely new meaning to the [...]
