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Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that. Rebekah Send a noteboard - 21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM
At least, for removing some of that.

Because the project is joint US-Brazilian, and the English "dictionary" of 45 000 words is meant to be mirrored by the Brazilian version that will come out soon, they removed lots of words that would look like false friends in Portuguese. They also removed a lot of other words for different reasons.

I agree that it will be on the low side for your actual vocabulary.
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Help out these researchers: test your English vocabulary Rebekah - 21/08/2011 03:07:24 PM 853 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 566 Views
Perhpas I misunderstood the instructions, because it told me my vocabulary is 1680 words. *NM* Palatine - 21/08/2011 04:03:19 PM 221 Views
I tried to be very conservative Tom - 21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM 632 Views
That was my thought as well Larry - 21/08/2011 06:24:06 PM 666 Views
Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that. Rebekah - 21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM 599 Views
I did read it Larry - 21/08/2011 06:32:28 PM 525 Views
28,300 words. Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2011 05:52:10 PM 561 Views
Hmm Camilla - 21/08/2011 06:07:36 PM 617 Views
I got 35700, but I was perhaps too generous in ticking boxes. Legolas - 21/08/2011 07:49:24 PM 667 Views
The wife had the same reaction to "lots", "somewhat" and "not much". Joel - 21/08/2011 10:15:05 PM 653 Views
Yeah, she would. Legolas - 21/08/2011 10:54:20 PM 587 Views
That makes sense. Joel - 22/08/2011 03:49:18 PM 650 Views
I'm going to hope I misinterpreted that, but... Legolas - 22/08/2011 07:24:04 PM 572 Views
Nah, you got it, and I didn't. Joel - 22/08/2011 08:27:33 PM 638 Views
37700 *NM* Stephen - 21/08/2011 08:52:29 PM 219 Views
Bah, 35,000 *NM* beetnemesis - 21/08/2011 10:02:43 PM 249 Views
I'm only slightly above average nossy - 22/08/2011 04:07:02 AM 557 Views
39,000. It seemed pretty heavy on the Latin derivations. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/08/2011 04:48:23 AM 257 Views
28,800 Macharius - 22/08/2011 01:43:36 PM 556 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 281 Views
Trollop! Trollop was on the list! Low- 22,800. *NM* Avendesora - 22/08/2011 08:43:21 PM 234 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 548 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 545 Views
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