Test your vocabulary

[bridge too far]

http://testyourvocab.com/

 

How will you all do, I wonder?

 

I scored 37,000

[trousers]

Does it test for quality or quantity...? ;-)

[bridge too far]

Does it test for quality or quantity...? ;-)

 

Ooh you *****!

 

Do it yourself, sweetie, and let me know how well you did. I think you'll beat me though

 

NO CHEATING!

[rocknrollman no2]

I only scored 25.500 and i considered myself to have had a normal education.

I blame those young whippersnappers for inventing lots more new words!

[dune]

I got maximum points.

[shurlock]

41,100

[buctootim]

34,500

[Fowllyd]

36,500. There were a good few words there that I feel I should know, but couldn't actually put a definition to. Familiar but not familiar enough. It's an interesting test and site, particularly the page explaining how it's worked out, and also contains this great quote from Mark Twain:

 

“Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime.”

Edited 22 November, 2011 by Fowllyd

[trousers]

Ooh you *****!

 

Do it yourself, sweetie, and let me know how well you did. I think you'll beat me though

 

I doubt it. I pride myself on not using several fancy words when one simple one will do.

 

And them there'd the fact that the 'next step' button doesn't work on my iPhone...

[Turkish]

69,123 go ME!!!!

[Whitey Grandad]

Hmm, 37600. I shall take the whole thing with a pinch of muriated natrium.

[Turkish]

36,500. There were a good few words there that I feel I should know, but couldn't actually put a definition to. Familiar but not familiar enough. It's an interesting test and site, particularly the page explaining how it's worked out, and also contains this great quote from Mark Twain:

 

“Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime.”

 

Stop trying to justify being dense.

[bridge too far]

I doubt it. I pride myself on not using several fancy words when one simple one will do.

 

And them there'd the fact that the 'next step' button doesn't work on my iPhone...

 

Nor does your grammar / spell check, it would seem

[trousers]

Nor does your grammar / spell check, it would seem

 

Yeah, that's pretty s h i t e too :-)

[Somewhere In Northam]

36 300

not sure if i am disappointed or not. . .

[Jillyanne]

Takes wwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy toooooooooooooooo long!!!

[SuperMikey]

26,800.

 

Half of the words towards the end of the second page struck me as being fictional....

[dune]

26,800.

 

Half of the words towards the end of the second page struck me as being fictional....

 

I bet your twin (saintandy666) got double that.

[Fowllyd]

Stop trying to justify being dense.

 

You're such a wag. Why not have a go yourself and let us all know how you get on.

[Hamilton Saint]

26,800.

 

Half of the words towards the end of the second page struck me as being fictional....

 

Probably - thrown in to check for cheating.

[Window Cleaner]

Hmm, 37600. I shall take the whole thing with a pinch of muriated natrium.

 

Idem, can't be a very accurate system, I must know the meaning or definition of at least 100,000 words.

Edited 23 November, 2011 by Window Cleaner

[Marsdinho]

All I can think of is a conversation between Blackadder and Samuel Johnson.

[dronskisaint]

32k...but I didn't cheat!

[Wes Tender]

37,200.