Dear of Troy,

A person's vocabulary would be the reading vocabulary, which would be by far higher than the spoken vocabulary. In the article I read years ago, I read that a person's spoken vocabulary would be about a third of the reading (or working) vocabulary. Or: (flip the coin) You can divide the reading vocabulary by three and have a good idea of a person's spoken vocabulary. Even in writing, you wouldn't begin to use all the words you could recognize in context in reading. Your lowest used vocabulary, in other words, is your spoken; next would be writing; finally, highest, reading vocabulary. Your vocabulary is your reading vocabulary--you get credit for what you know!

I don't know how many points you get off for mondegreens and gang.

Book regards,
WW