Thread: How's your vocabulary?
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Old 08-10-2011, 11:43 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Read more, and use the built-in dictionary.

Actually, vocabulary size is closely related to age. According to the preliminary results at the site, vocabulary increases at about four words a day from age 3 to 16, and then starts to slow, and as adults is more like one word a day.

And from 50 onwards, seems to almost stop. Hmm.. I think I'll have to take my own advice.

Word for today: uxoricide. (It was new to me!)
Good for you. I contemplated it a few times until they introduced divorce in Italy. Not true. It is just a blague
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