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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 960 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 655 Views
Perhpas I misunderstood the instructions, because it told me my vocabulary is 1680 words. *NM* Palatine - 21/08/2011 04:03:19 PM 265 Views
I tried to be very conservative Tom - 21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM 717 Views
That was my thought as well Larry - 21/08/2011 06:24:06 PM 749 Views
Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that. Rebekah - 21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM 693 Views
I did read it Larry - 21/08/2011 06:32:28 PM 612 Views
28,300 words. Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2011 05:52:10 PM 651 Views
Hmm Camilla - 21/08/2011 06:07:36 PM 710 Views
I got 35700, but I was perhaps too generous in ticking boxes. Legolas - 21/08/2011 07:49:24 PM 755 Views
The wife had the same reaction to "lots", "somewhat" and "not much". Joel - 21/08/2011 10:15:05 PM 738 Views
Yeah, she would. Legolas - 21/08/2011 10:54:20 PM 671 Views
That makes sense. Joel - 22/08/2011 03:49:18 PM 757 Views
I'm going to hope I misinterpreted that, but... Legolas - 22/08/2011 07:24:04 PM 670 Views
Nah, you got it, and I didn't. Joel - 22/08/2011 08:27:33 PM 740 Views
37700 *NM* Stephen - 21/08/2011 08:52:29 PM 262 Views
Bah, 35,000 *NM* beetnemesis - 21/08/2011 10:02:43 PM 294 Views
I'm only slightly above average nossy - 22/08/2011 04:07:02 AM 650 Views
39,000. It seemed pretty heavy on the Latin derivations. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/08/2011 04:48:23 AM 298 Views
28,800 Macharius - 22/08/2011 01:43:36 PM 654 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 325 Views
Trollop! Trollop was on the list! Low- 22,800. *NM* Avendesora - 22/08/2011 08:43:21 PM 278 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 637 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 639 Views
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