Monday, June 15, 2009

Do you know these words?

"New York Times mines its data to identify words its readers find abstruse" (via Sanden Totten, producer of MPR's "In the Loop")
 

 Wordle: NY Times Hard Words
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Fresca said...

I followed the NYT link to the25-most-looked-up words on dictionary.com here:
http://blog.compete.com/2009/04/03/dictionary-most-searched/

"Love" was in or near the top 10 for all three months listed. Makes sense to me:
I know what a bonobo is, but I don't know what love means either!

4:03 PM
momo said...

hee hee! I didn't know phlogiston.

5:49 PM

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