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Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats by pricechild on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:27AM (#13885784)
> There were only nine searches for those two words in the hour before the exam started, but the number soon began to soar. In the final hour of the test there were 989 requests for their meaning

The article suggests you could likely count the number of innocent users affected on fingers & toes?

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Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats by stephengillie on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:30AM (#13885807)
The article suggests many readers of a popular author's blog were impacted.

> The DEX editors assumed it was and changed its definition, but later discovered that it had been used by a well-known Romanian author in a blog post that morning, something they call an "unfortunate coincidence".

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Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats by pricechild on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:10PM (#13889665)
Apologies, thanks.
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