Terry ([info]l_stboy) wrote,
@ 2009-06-12 11:41:00
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Vocabulary
A table at the link below lists the 50 most looked-up words at the New York Times web site for 2009, and the text of a memo from the deputy news editor to his reporters about the use of language in the Times:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/ny-times-mines-its-data-to-identify-words-that-readers-find-abstruse/


The top 5 words, with the number of articles in which the word appeared:

sui generis 12
solipsistic 3
louche 27
laconic 17
saturnine 2


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[info]badger
2009-06-12 06:50 pm UTC (link)
louche 27

Probably due to an top 10 absinthe roundup review they printed earlier this year.

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[info]tyratae
2009-06-12 07:02 pm UTC (link)
i am such a disappointment to myself and (presumably) others. i did not know what "louche" meant. :(

or, on the sunny side of life, thanks! i learned a new word today!

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[info]badger
2009-06-12 07:45 pm UTC (link)
Commenting on not knowing louche implies you knew the other four, which is hardly a disappointment in my opinion!

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[info]tyratae
2009-06-13 02:06 am UTC (link)
but i'm supposed to know them all! (everybody thinks) i'm an english major!

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