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Help out these researchers: test your English vocabulary Rebekah Send a noteboard - 21/08/2011 03:07:24 PM
Interesting test linked on Twitter today. Not sure how scientific and accurate it is - they give detailed reasoning for word choice under "Nitty-Gritty" - but it's a little bit fun.
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Help out these researchers: test your English vocabulary Rebekah - 21/08/2011 03:07:24 PM 779 Views
When I first read that I thought you meant "nitty-gritty" was one of the words they checked. Joel - 21/08/2011 03:26:28 PM 502 Views
Perhpas I misunderstood the instructions, because it told me my vocabulary is 1680 words. *NM* Palatine - 21/08/2011 04:03:19 PM 193 Views
I tried to be very conservative Tom - 21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM 562 Views
That was my thought as well Larry - 21/08/2011 06:24:06 PM 598 Views
Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that. Rebekah - 21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM 533 Views
I did read it Larry - 21/08/2011 06:32:28 PM 458 Views
28,300 words. Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2011 05:52:10 PM 505 Views
Hmm Camilla - 21/08/2011 06:07:36 PM 550 Views
I got 35700, but I was perhaps too generous in ticking boxes. Legolas - 21/08/2011 07:49:24 PM 611 Views
The wife had the same reaction to "lots", "somewhat" and "not much". Joel - 21/08/2011 10:15:05 PM 577 Views
Yeah, she would. Legolas - 21/08/2011 10:54:20 PM 519 Views
That makes sense. Joel - 22/08/2011 03:49:18 PM 576 Views
I'm going to hope I misinterpreted that, but... Legolas - 22/08/2011 07:24:04 PM 497 Views
Nah, you got it, and I didn't. Joel - 22/08/2011 08:27:33 PM 556 Views
37700 *NM* Stephen - 21/08/2011 08:52:29 PM 197 Views
Bah, 35,000 *NM* beetnemesis - 21/08/2011 10:02:43 PM 218 Views
I'm only slightly above average nossy - 22/08/2011 04:07:02 AM 486 Views
39,000. It seemed pretty heavy on the Latin derivations. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/08/2011 04:48:23 AM 225 Views
28,800 Macharius - 22/08/2011 01:43:36 PM 488 Views
Neat link, It seems I'm around 25600. Made me want to get my dictinary out... *NM* Nolan - 22/08/2011 03:43:24 PM 245 Views
Trollop! Trollop was on the list! Low- 22,800. *NM* Avendesora - 22/08/2011 08:43:21 PM 210 Views
I like the rice one from years ago. Still, I so kicked ass that I won't post... Vodalus - 23/08/2011 04:57:58 AM 498 Views
37000... It's interesting how it makes you remember how you know some of the harder words Isaac - 23/08/2011 12:16:17 PM 488 Views
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