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<\/div>\nMy daughter Katie has been saying ‘Woot<\/b>‘ a lot recently. Confused at first, I’ve learned it’s a good thing. A positive exclamation. An interjection<\/a>! I thought it was something unique to her and her friends, but as my friend, Chuq Yang<\/a> pointed out in his blog, Merriam-Webster included ‘Woot’ among their top ten Favorite Words (That Are Not in the Dictionary)<\/a>. The Urban Dictionary has 53 definitions of ‘woot’<\/a>. I have tried to start using it, but I think Katie’s embarrassed when I do and I’d hate to be responsible for ruining this non-word for her.<\/p>\n There’s another bit of evolutionary language that we’ve watched spread into common usage among our children and their friends; versing<\/b><\/a>. They have taken the preposition versus<\/a>, and turned it into a verb<\/a>. Now I’m no anal-grammarian or anything (I just had to look preposition<\/a> up, I sure don’t remember it among my Schoolhouse Rock favorites, but I guess there was one<\/a>). But hearing my son say something like, “Today we’re versing that team that beat us before”, still kinda grates on me. Apparently this isn’t a local phenomenon either, they’re versing down under<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n update:<\/b> in the comments; Katie insists that the proper spelling is ‘Whoot<\/a>‘, and Ben has pointed out a good article on w00t in Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My daughter Katie has been saying ‘Woot’ a lot recently. Confused at first, I’ve learned it’s a good thing. A positive exclamation. An interjection! I thought it was something unique to her and her friends, but as my friend, Chuq Yang pointed out …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMxM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354548,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795742\/revisions\/173354548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}