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		codeulike on April 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017) Its clearly a UK/USA split, for some reason the article does not mention this. Wikipedia has it on 'List of words having different meanings in American and British English' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different...

kimbernator on April 29, 2024 [–]

The article does not mention this, but the second paragraph links a MW definition which does explicitly call out that this usage is primarily US-based: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed

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