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Estimate the size of your vocabulary
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:37 pm
by Damelon
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:01 pm
by Warmark
I got around 108000 for the first part, and i forgot the other numbers, heh.
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:16 pm
by Seareach
Oh...I so know if I do this I'm going to end up embarrassing myself... !!!
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:34 pm
by [Syl]
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:14 pm
by Romeo
If I had to estimate the size of my vocabulary, I'd end up going out and buying a sports car.
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:04 pm
by sgt.null
it says 89,000 words i know. thast seems much
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:31 pm
by duchess of malfi
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:38 pm
by Marv
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!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:00 am
by Vain
106920 words/phrases understood , 17045 familiar, 12396 familiar but not understood- I obviously need to brush up
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:19 am
by Damelon
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:43 am
by balon!
117767 words.
Not too shabby!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:07 am
by [Syl]
Yeah, I knew it was English food. But the other one...?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:58 am
by I am not Joan
Damelon wrote:
I think I almost snorted my Bloody Mary through my nose, I laughed so hard.
That would be a disgusting visual.
No thank you for sharing.
Golden Shower Tree:
mgonline.com/cassiafistula.html
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:06 am
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...
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:29 pm
by aliantha
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:19 pm
by CovenantJr
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
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:05 pm
by Marv
What does 'inferred' mean?!
I'll take the test when I've woken up a bit. I don't anticipate big numbers!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:37 pm
by DukkhaWaynhim
111568 known
9297 familiar
20144 inferred
...and yes, a science background definitely helps.
dw
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:52 pm
by Cagliostro
I got a rock.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:53 pm
by CovenantJr
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".
