Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days ago

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days ago

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VocabOwl - Scientific Word Count

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All of them. I could prove it, but it’d take a long time and I’ve got stuff to do, so…

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