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- Oct 7, 2001
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another article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.../wr_nm/usa_language_dc

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.../wr_nm/usa_language_dc
Merriam-Webster President John Morse said "w00t" reflected the growing use of numeric keyboards to type words.
"People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 for O; 3 for E; 7 for T; and 4 for A," he said. "This is simply a different and more efficient way of representing the alphabetical character."
