I like words.
I look 'em up ... the complicated, long ones anyway ... and I occasionally throw 'em at people just to see how they deal with it.
It's a bit of fun and it passes the time.
But it has been said, or at least hinted at, that the average English speaking person has a vocabulary size ranging between 10000 and 20000 words.
On the basis that this assumption is true, and having met very many people over the years that display vocabularic (I made this word up) skills of a chair leg, I feel forced, and indeed obliged, to elevate myself into the 'well above average' group of English speakers.
{ Author exhales onto finger nails of right hand then polishes said nails on shirt. Grins smugly at reader }
Yerr! Whatever you reckon is a fair thing! (I think!) lol!
ReplyDeleteI had to look the stat's up. They vary by a thousand or two (up and down) so I took the middle values.
DeleteWhat I say ROCKS!!!
Clearly those numbers have not been compared to Australia's vocabulary. I'm guessing the average Aussie commands no more than 2000 words. (some of them are even similar to the English Language)
ReplyDeleteAh ... Australia! That's a whole different kettle of fish. I would have numbered it in 10's as opposed to 1000's
DeleteI have always thought you were Well Above Average.
ReplyDeleteI like you!
DeleteIt's always a joy learning all those new words that our editors cross out on our manuscripts.
ReplyDeleteThese days the clued-up user of an editor should ensure perfection of word by using a spell-checker for the spell-checker!
DeleteIsn't smugness grand?. I believe the Queen was visiting Cardiff the other day did ya go and give her a bunch of flowers? :-).
ReplyDeleteI'm very good at Smug! The Queen visited Llandaff Cathedral ('bout 1/2 a mile away). I stayed indoors and didn't she her until she came to our house to put her feet up for a minute or two. She had a cuppa and a slice of jam on toast.
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