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The 50 Most Looked-Up Words By New York Times Readers

First Posted: 06/09/10 01:15 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:45 PM ET

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Following up on a popular After Deadline post from last year, my colleague James Robinson, with help from Jeremy Safran, once again compiled a list of the 50 words that most often stumped the world's most brilliant newspaper readers. (O.K., in one case, 4,734 of those savants searched in vain for the definition of a word coined as a joke by a mischievous columnist.)

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Following up on a popular After Deadline post from last year, my colleague James Robinson, with help from Jeremy Safran, once again compiled a list of the 50 words that most often stumped the world's ...
Following up on a popular After Deadline post from last year, my colleague James Robinson, with help from Jeremy Safran, once again compiled a list of the 50 words that most often stumped the world's ...
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MarkInIrvine
fuzzy-headed knee-jerk liberal and proud of it
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01:50 AM on 06/11/2010
I know most of the words on the list (Sunday NYT subscriber, here; puzzles in ink only), but WTF is "renminbi"?
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07:08 AM on 06/13/2010
Renminbi is the name of the Chinese currency.
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MarkInIrvine
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12:59 AM on 06/14/2010
great! thanks!(been too busy the last day or two to look it up myself)
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tploomis
when I'm dogmatic, I'm usually wrong
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11:45 PM on 06/09/2010
My thoughts on this article are inchoate.
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04:08 PM on 06/09/2010
Some of them are new. But Kristallnacht? Seriously? And renminbi? Wow.
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