The ancient and honorable WOOT

[imported_Fiskr]

Woot (v.) - knew, past tense of "witen"

Unto the village of the which I tolde,
In this array the righte wey han holde.
Grisilde of this, God /woot/, ful innocent,
That for hire shapen was al this array,
To fecchen water at a welle is went,

- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury tales (1387-1394)

Pronunciation: /woUt/

Key
/w/ w in we, away
/oU/ o in note
/t/ t in tie


The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and Skeat's "Concise Dictionary of Middle English", as found on Greg Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html

 

[Babble]

woot?

 

[imported_Lord Kynd]

did they ban woot or something ?

 

[imported_ParadoxUO]

guess we learn something new everyday...

 

[Kith Kanan]

Even with GM LJ Woot is now hard to come by

 

[imported_Fiskr]

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Even with GM LJ Woot is now hard to come by

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Yup. That's because it was legitimized by being added to the old fashioned dictionary. Hard to be leet and mainstream at the same time.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/12/woot-named-merr.html