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I tried to be very conservative Tom Send a noteboard - 21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM
There are words like "sparge" that I would guess is a derivative of the Latin spargere, but since I've never seen it actually used I didn't check it. I did enjoy seeing "terpsichorean" though it really should be capitalized.

Anyway, it said my vocabulary is 38,800 words. That's probably on the very low side, given that there are thousands upon thousands of Latin, Greek and French words that bled through into English.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Help out these researchers: test your English vocabulary - 21/08/2011 03:07:24 PM 676 Views
I tried to be very conservative - 21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM 463 Views
That was my thought as well - 21/08/2011 06:24:06 PM 492 Views
Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that. - 21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM 432 Views
I did read it - 21/08/2011 06:32:28 PM 361 Views
28,300 words. - 21/08/2011 05:52:10 PM 410 Views
Hmm - 21/08/2011 06:07:36 PM 443 Views
I got 35700, but I was perhaps too generous in ticking boxes. - 21/08/2011 07:49:24 PM 513 Views
The wife had the same reaction to "lots", "somewhat" and "not much". - 21/08/2011 10:15:05 PM 484 Views
Yeah, she would. - 21/08/2011 10:54:20 PM 422 Views
That makes sense. - 22/08/2011 03:49:18 PM 472 Views
I'm going to hope I misinterpreted that, but... - 22/08/2011 07:24:04 PM 394 Views
Nah, you got it, and I didn't. - 22/08/2011 08:27:33 PM 454 Views
37700 *NM* - 21/08/2011 08:52:29 PM 162 Views
Bah, 35,000 *NM* - 21/08/2011 10:02:43 PM 184 Views
I'm only slightly above average - 22/08/2011 04:07:02 AM 391 Views
39,000. It seemed pretty heavy on the Latin derivations. *NM* - 22/08/2011 04:48:23 AM 188 Views
28,800 - 22/08/2011 01:43:36 PM 382 Views
Trollop! Trollop was on the list! Low- 22,800. *NM* - 22/08/2011 08:43:21 PM 172 Views

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