| Terry ( @ 2009-06-12 11:41:00 |
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-tim es-mines-its-data-to-identify-words-that-r eaders-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
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-tim
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