WOT

WOT

The English word wot has fallen into disuse. Originally used as the first and second person conjugation for Old English "witan"; the equivalent to the verb to know. It can also refer to:

Wot

* "Wot", a homophone representation of the word "", often used in chat rooms
* "Wot?", the name of a popular song by Captain Sensible from 1982
*WOTS, radio station 1220 kHz in Kissimmee

Containing the word "wot"

*"Wot Gorilla?", 1977 song from Genesis's album, "Wind and Wuthering"
* "Wot's... Uh the Deal?", 1972 song from Pink Floyd's album, "Obscured by Clouds"
* "Oh! Wot a Dream", 1972 Kevin Ayers single taken from his fourth solo album "Bananamour"
* Currie Wot, a 1930s British single-seat aerobatic biplane aircraft
* "It's The Sun Wot Won It" famous headline that appeared on the front-page of The Sun on Saturday 11 April 1992, and has since become a political catch phrase in the United Kingdom
* "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be" is a 1960 play by Frank Norman and music by Lionel Bart
* "The Play Wot I Wrote", a 2001 musical farce written by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben

Abbreviations

Additionally, WOT is a three-letter abbreviation that may stand for:

* Weak operator topology
* Wheel of Time, which has several meanings including a religious concept and a fantasy series
* Wide open throttle
* War on Terrorism
* Wot (musical instrument), a circular panpipe used in the music of Isan, Thailand
* , a communal rating system for browsing
* Web of Trust, a mechanism used for authenticating cryptographic keys
* White Order of Thule, a 1990s society formed by federal prisoner Peter Georgacarakos, Michael Lujan, Joseph Kerrick
* Waste of Time
* Wall of Text

ee also

*Watt (disambiguation)
*Wat
*WaT
*Wat (food)
*What


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  • Wot — Wot, 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Wit}, to know. See the {Note} under {Wit}, v. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it. Acts iii. 17. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • WOT — (англ. Wheel of Time) цикл литературных произведений американского писателя Роберта Джордана в стиле эпической фэнтези. WoT (англ. Web of Trust) инструмент для оценки рейтинга веб сайтов. WoT (англ. World of Tanks) компьютерная… …   Википедия

  • WoT — (англ. Wheel of Time) цикл литературных произведений американского писателя Роберта Джордана в стиле эпической фэнтези. WoT (англ. Web of Trust) инструмент для оценки рейтинга веб сайтов. WoT (англ. World of Tanks) компьютерная… …   Википедия

  • wot — is sometimes used in writing to represent what , to show that someone is speaking very informally or that they are being humorous. [BRIT, INFORMAL] Cor, wot brilliant prizes! …   English dictionary

  • WOT — ist die Abkürzung für Web of Trust Web of Trust (Bewertungsplattform) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben Wort bezeichneter Begriffe …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • wot — /wot/, v. Archaic. first and third pers. sing. pres. of wit2. [ME woot, OE wat; c. G weiss, ON veit, Goth wait, Gk oîda, I have seen, I know, Skt veda; see WIT2] * * * …   Universalium

  • wot — [wɔt US wa:t, wʌt] BrE an informal spelling of ↑what …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • wot — to know (archaic), from O.E. wat, first and third person singular present indicative of witan to know, from P.Gmc. *wait (see WIT (Cf. wit) (v.)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • wot — [wät] vt., vi. 1st & 3d pers. sing., pres. indic., of WIT2 …   English World dictionary

  • Wot — Wit Wit (w[i^]t), v. t. & i. [inf. (To) {Wit}; pres. sing. {Wot}; pl. {Wite}; imp. {Wist(e)}; p. p. {Wist}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wit(t)ing}. See the Note below.] [OE. witen, pres. ich wot, wat, I know (wot), imp. wiste, AS. witan, pres. w[=a]t, imp.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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