Every year , students in Romania take a internal exam to determine whether they will go on their education in high school or — if they fail to score high-pitched enough — in a trade wind school . In 2016 , online Romanian dictionaryDEXnoticed a spike in certain word lookups during the practice exam , which takes place in the outpouring as prep for the main event in June .
It turned out that the spike were for discussion that appeared in test questions . No devices or phones are tolerate in the test , and students are not supposed to be consulting the dictionary , but on the face of it , quite a few of them were doing just that .
In March , as reported by the BBC , DEX decided to teach the would - be deceiver a example ( or , some would say , displume a dastardly john on them ) by changing the definitions in the lexicon as soon as they remark the search spikes . They changed the definition ofpretutindenifrom the right " everywhere " to the wrong " forever " andzărifrom " to catch sight " to " to hurry . "
These words were indeed on the exam , but another word that they changed the definition for , felonie(“treachery , " changed to " arrogance " ) , was not on the examination . It had a spike in lookups because it had been used in a blog C. W. Post by an influential author . Anyone inconvenienced by learning the ill-timed definition in this case was , harmonise to DEX , simply the dupe of an luckless coincidence .
The tricky move wascriticizedfor being unprofessional and undermining the believability of the dictionary , and for promoting a joke at the expense of accent - out students . Others support the joke , say that beguiler should get what they deserve . It ’s not clear whether DEX will judge it again during the actual exam in June , but surely , any students whose backup plan was a secret peek at the speech sound will retrieve twice before trusting what it might tell them .
