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Originally Posted by Delvo
"Woo" also bugs me not through overuse but because it's often done wrong. The complete form is "woo-woo". Singlifying the doubled syllable not only shows laziness & sloppiness, and makes it not the same thing anymore, but also bumps into the spelling and sound of another word which got there first. (I've even seen this pop up in a thread that was all about certain sources of advice on how to woo people!)
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"woo" is not always a simplification of "woo-woo". It is commonly used as a variant of "woot", which is a exclamation (favorable) of surprise.
"I won the roll for the magic sword. woo!"