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OP Yes, I do mean that Johnson O'connor.
Have you ever seen his English Vocabulary Builder? A giant work in psychometrics conducted by O'connor at Steven's Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, USA. He tested people's vocabularies, then arranged the results under the headings "100% of those tested knew these words...99%....98%..." All the way to "1% of the people tested knew these words..." It's a pretty cool study. Horseshoe was a word that 100% of the peope knew.
Along with each word, he gives the etymology and says stuff like "People may have gotten this wrong because..."
Anyway, I thought the book would interest the AWAD ilk.
(Did I just coin AWAD as an adjective?)
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted the word-mavens' hagiography pieman 05/11/00 12:25 PM Re: the word-mavens' hagiography tsuwm 05/11/00 05:29 PM Re: the word-mavens' hagiography tsuwm 05/11/00 05:44 PM Johnson O'connor pieman 05/11/00 08:52 PM Re: Johnson O'connor AnnaStrophic 05/12/00 10:54 PM Re: English Vocabulary builder David108 05/13/00 06:29 PM Re: Johnson O'connor pieman 05/14/00 04:04 AM
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