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An interesting test I found:

www.plenilune.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vocabulary.asp

The site encourages you to take the test a couple of times in order to get a better reading on it.

Taking the averages from a couple of tests, from a data base of about 150,000 words, it gave me figures of:

Vocabulary of roughly 97,000 words

Familiar with another 9500 words

Not familiar, but able to understand - about 14,000.
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I got around 108000 for the first part, and i forgot the other numbers, heh.
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Oh...I so know if I do this I'm going to end up embarrassing myself... !!!
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120000 twice. 90000 once. Ugh. Way too many taxonomies. The second time I had a whole bunch of hebrew words and nautical terms. The third time, my last two words were strangely "spotted dick" and "golden shower tree." I chose inferred on the latter.
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If I had to estimate the size of my vocabulary, I'd end up going out and buying a sports car. :-)
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it says 89,000 words i know. thast seems much
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Took it twice and both times it came up with about 128,000 words in my vocabulary. Guess those old biology courses came in handy after all. :P :wink: :lol:
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Hey, I bet I know plenty of everyday phrases NOT on their database! Probably a hell of a lot more useful than minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, aswell!
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106920 words/phrases understood , 17045 familiar, 12396 familiar but not understood- I obviously need to brush up :)
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Syl wrote: The third time, my last two words were strangely "spotted dick" and "golden shower tree." I chose inferred on the latter.
Having read some of Patrick O'Brian's books, I was familiar with what spotted dick is. It's a pudding. After I read your post this morning, I went out to brunch. On the tv where I went they were showing Shanghai Noon. Well the first thing I hear when I sit down is Owen Wilson saying he particularly loved the spotted dick. I think I almost snorted my Bloody Mary through my nose, I laughed so hard. :lol:
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117767 words.

Not too shabby! :D
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Yeah, I knew it was English food. But the other one...?
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Damelon wrote: I think I almost snorted my Bloody Mary through my nose, I laughed so hard. :lol:
That would be a disgusting visual. :roll: No thank you for sharing. :whip:

Golden Shower Tree:

mgonline.com/cassiafistula.html
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Post by Xar »

I got an average of:

120,871 words/phrases understood.

11,621 familiar

11,621 familiar but not understood.

It does help, though, that several words and phrases in the test had a biological background...
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Yes, it would help to have a biological background. And I don't. :?

About 109,000 words/phrases understood. I didn't make note of the other figures.
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I was going to do it at least three times in order to get a decent average, but it seemed like too much effort, so I stopped at two. The averages from the two are:

Understood: 89099

Familiar: 8522

Inferred: 24793
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Post by Marv »

What does 'inferred' mean?! :P

I'll take the test when I've woken up a bit. I don't anticipate big numbers! :biggrin:
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111568 known
9297 familiar
20144 inferred

...and yes, a science background definitely helps.

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DukkhaWaynhim wrote:...and yes, a science background definitely helps.
Yes. I came up against quite a few incomprehensible phrases that had the look of science about them.

Also a strange proliferation of British slang, such as "knackered". :?
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