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Old 30-04-2011, 09:58 PM #54
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Originally Posted by Smithy View Post
90% of the dictionary is out of your vocabulary
I think you'd be overachieving if you had so much as 10% of the dictionary in your vocabulary. There are 600,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary (and it's growing). Most of us will only ever use around 6,000 in our lifetime.
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