Darren New wrote:
> 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.

I did do an experiment where I picked a random page from the dictionary 
and read the first word off it. It took a *loooong* time before I came 
across a word I didn't already clearly recognise.

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