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#156495 03/04/2006 11:36 AM

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Richard Lederer, a lion among linguistics, tells us that the average English speaker possesses a vocabulary of 10,000 to 20,000 words, Lederer observes, but actually uses only a fraction of that, the rest being recognition or recall vocabulary.

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neologism(s) tsuwm 03/03/2006 10:27 PM

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Re: neologism(s) Stag_Beetle 03/04/2006 11:28 AM

Re: neologism(s) Stag_Beetle 03/04/2006 11:36 AM

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Re: neologism(s) Stag_Beetle 03/04/2006 7:56 PM

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Re: neologism(s) Jackie 03/08/2006 1:34 AM

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Shamelessly crossthreading TEd Remington 03/08/2006 12:04 PM

Re: neologism(s) Father Steve 03/08/2006 2:22 AM

Re: neologism(s) Stag_Beetle 03/04/2006 8:08 PM

Re: neologism(s) Stag_Beetle 03/04/2006 8:31 PM

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Re: zyxwv Buffalo Shrdlu 03/05/2006 8:42 PM

from the halls of Montezuma Alex Williams 03/07/2006 10:31 PM

Re: from the halls of Montezuma Jackie 03/07/2006 10:55 PM

Re: from the halls of Montezuma Buffalo Shrdlu 03/07/2006 10:57 PM

A Nabokovian neologism: alfear Person_Man 03/07/2006 11:39 AM

Re: A Nabokovian neologism: alfear TEd Remington 03/07/2006 11:57 AM

Re: A Nabokovian neologism: alfear Person_Man 03/07/2006 12:40 PM

Re: A Nabokovian neologism: alfear TEd Remington 03/07/2006 1:16 PM

Re: A Nabokovian neologism: alfear dalehileman 03/07/2006 10:22 PM

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