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 @bb052609 Recently there was a NYT crossword with  a theme of "sesquipedalian" words and the comments were full of people who'd never heard of the big theme word, "antidisestablishmentarianism" (and were mad about it). I know it's an obscure word, but I'd thought all crosswordish people would have learned it as the factoid of the "longest word in the English language" as a kid. Though not its meaning, of course! 😆 

So yeah, same here -- often wrong about others' knowledge! 
 @4fb795fc I would have thought everyone doing they NYT crossword would know about "antidisestablishmentarianism" too.