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Old 06-09-2011, 02:40 PM   #107
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Originally Posted by DMB View Post
No-one knows every word in their language, but a well educated adult isn't going to meet many new words when reading unless the reading is in a very specialised area.
The OED lists more than 300,000 words. How many hundred thousand of them do you know, off the top of your head?

(I'd go so far as to say that an adult that doesn't encounter new words while reading isn't continuing to become well educated.)
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