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Invisible wrote:
> Already seen it. (Why do you think I picked that example?) I'm still
> wondering just how large a typical vocabulary is. I'm guessing tens of
> thousands of words, roughly.
Probably.
An easier measure is "how many different words show up in a large newspaper
over the course of a year". The answer there, I've heard, is around
8000-10000 words.
Counting words in a dictionary seems the wrong way to go.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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