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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 814 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 534 Views
Perhpas I misunderstood the instructions, because it told me my vocabulary is 1680 words. *NM* Palatine - 21/08/2011 04:03:19 PM 208 Views
I tried to be very conservative Tom - 21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM 596 Views
That was my thought as well Larry - 21/08/2011 06:24:06 PM 632 Views
Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that. Rebekah - 21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM 567 Views
I did read it Larry - 21/08/2011 06:32:28 PM 491 Views
28,300 words. Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2011 05:52:10 PM 532 Views
Hmm Camilla - 21/08/2011 06:07:36 PM 582 Views
I got 35700, but I was perhaps too generous in ticking boxes. Legolas - 21/08/2011 07:49:24 PM 639 Views
The wife had the same reaction to "lots", "somewhat" and "not much". Joel - 21/08/2011 10:15:05 PM 617 Views
Yeah, she would. Legolas - 21/08/2011 10:54:20 PM 554 Views
That makes sense. Joel - 22/08/2011 03:49:18 PM 615 Views
I'm going to hope I misinterpreted that, but... Legolas - 22/08/2011 07:24:04 PM 538 Views
Nah, you got it, and I didn't. Joel - 22/08/2011 08:27:33 PM 603 Views
37700 *NM* Stephen - 21/08/2011 08:52:29 PM 208 Views
Bah, 35,000 *NM* beetnemesis - 21/08/2011 10:02:43 PM 233 Views
I'm only slightly above average nossy - 22/08/2011 04:07:02 AM 518 Views
39,000. It seemed pretty heavy on the Latin derivations. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/08/2011 04:48:23 AM 239 Views
28,800 Macharius - 22/08/2011 01:43:36 PM 520 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 266 Views
Trollop! Trollop was on the list! Low- 22,800. *NM* Avendesora - 22/08/2011 08:43:21 PM 222 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 523 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 515 Views
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