Top 30 Words and Phrases of 2007

As a word of mouth company, we should have a handle on the words that are becoming part of the vernacular of our everyday discussions.

Based on Merriam-Webster's, Oxfords, Dictionary.com's and others , here's our aggegrated "words that were" for 2007:

1. wOOt - a gaming term for expressing joy after winning a contest
2. locavore - local eating foodies
3. klimakatostrophe - a climate catastrophie in German
4.  aging in place - aging in your existing residence
5. facebook - as a verb
6. bacn - a better received, more welcome version of spam
7. conundrum - a difficult problem or riddle
8. cloudware - online applications with massive data storage facilities
9. surge - part of U.S. souped up military strategy in Iraq
10. quixotic - capricious, foolishly impractical
11. colony collapse disorder - what's happening to the honeybee dropoff
12. blamestorm - sitting around as a group and trying to allocate blame
13. cougar - an older woman pursuing younger men for romance
14. brokeback - a synonym for gay
15. sardoodledom - an overly contrived pot, over-staged
16. MRAP vehicle - mine resistant ambush protected vehicle
17. apathethic - showing little interest, concern or emotion
18. mumblecore - independent film with low budgets, unprofessional actors and improvised script
19. Pecksniffian - haughtily hypocritical
20. previvor - not being diagnosed with something you are genetically predisposed to
21. hypocrite - a person who puts on a false appearance
22. social graph - the network of friends you have on social networks
23. charlatan - a quack
24. upcycling - recycling a "good" to give it a better use than its original  use
25. tase - to stun by a taser
26. Ninja loan - loans given to people with no income, jobs or assets
27. womenomics - the impact of greater purchasing power of women on the global economy
28. push present - a gift provided by a husband to a wife for giving birth
29.  fixie - fixed gear bikes
30.  coffee art - creative images in coffee

And now, what will 2008 bring? Predictions?