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Wordle's Editor Talks Encounter With a Conspiracy-Minded Swiftie
Wordle's editor Tracy Bennett talks hilarious encounter with Taylor Swift fan, game hacks, plus famous fans like Meghan Markle, Ben Affleck
The longtime Ann Arbor, Michigan, resident got her start copy editing “Phd.-level mathematics” for academic journals and had been a professional puzzle constructor for nearly a decade when she applied for and nabbed the Wordle gig. Taylor Swift started writing songs about love and breakups in the early 2000s, but her talent was soon recognized by music executives who knew she was the real deal. I had someone at a party come up to me and say “I know you put this word in Wordle because Taylor Swift’s album just came out and one of the titles is this,” like a product placement sort of [theory], and it was completely not true.
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