w00t is WOTY

Geeks everywhere will, I'm sure, be celebrating the victory of w00t as Merriam Webster's Word of the Year for 2007.

As voted for by site users, w00t:

1. w00t (interjection): expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all0; similar in use to the word "yay."

MW also comes up with the word's etymology: "we owned the other team"—again stemming from the gaming community") but this seems to be more of a folk etymology.

They don't mention the word's sarcastic use which is, as far as I can remember, the only way in which I have ever used it. Lexicography in the news again. W00t. etc. Edit: I do remember my mate Steve using "w00t" in a sarcastic way in about 2002; perhaps this is actually the homophone "woot," which evolved separately from its geekery counterpart.