woot not in mw.com?

[Joanne M. Despres]

Dennis,

My apologies for the incomplete explanation of how the Word of the
Year was chosen in 2007.  In the past it's been based solely on the
number of lookups in the Online Dictionary, but this year it was
chosen by website users from a short list of words that were
themselves selected on the basis of lookups in both the Online
Dictionary and the "Open Dictionary," a new website feature that
allows users to submit previously unpublished entry-words with
definitions.  W00t appears in the Open Dictionary but not in the
company-produced Online Dictionary -- hence your inability to find
it.

Joanne

On 14 Dec 2007, at 11:37, Dennis Baron wrote:

> When I look up woot, w00t, or other variants on the MW.com website, I
> get a message saying the word is not in the dictionary.  Yet it was
> apparently chosen as WOTY based on number of clicks.  Am I doing
> something wrong?  Whussup?
>
> Dennis
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