Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007 is...

In case you don’t know it..

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007 is

w00t

Ah yeah, isn’t that awesome! Just because Ebonics never took off doesn’t mean that slackers who find the English language complicated lengthy and boring (and sometimes geeky) cannot carry on its shoulders!
Sorry Ebonics this is one victory for l33t!
Read more about it here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm

Meanwhile, the rest of the world can’t get enough of the R2D2 Translater… http://www.r2d2translator.com/.
I am kidding.