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The Center for Reading Research at the University of Ghent is making a vocabulary test[^].
Well it's obviously a bit of a survey aswell, it's a university after all.
I scored pretty well I believe, considering I'm not native.
Quote: You said yes to 73% of the existing words.
You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 73% - 0% = 73%.
This is a high level for a native speaker.
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Not good.
I read it as the center for Reading (town in Berkshire) research.
I think the capital letter threw me.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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43%
I have to admit, that most of the words I failed to recognize are not part of the normal words I read.
I'd rather be phishing!
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My dear friend, Reading is in Massachusetts. ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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I am English and consider myself good at the English language but I still only scored 93% on the test - although I did know cosecant but hit the wrong response as I was rushing and didn't consider it properly spelled without the hyphen. Presumably this is an American spelling thing. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Only?!
Some of those words were really weird I find.
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I'm pretty good at weird words! I have taken part in various English language and spelling tests and often scored 100% - so 93% is definitely "only".
However, since German is my second language, and I used to be "fluent" in it, I bet I wouldn't even get 50% in that non-native language. It's all a matter of usage and education.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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But mine is more better. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I thought mine was the bestest, but I only got 66% 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Quote: You said yes to 86% of the existing words.
You said yes to 13% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 86% - 13% = 73%.
This is a high level for a native speaker.
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How about your English dialect?
Is that Northern London, or Southern Wales? How about Australian...
Come on ...
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Mine is Swedish with a bit of German in it.
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I get all kinds of weird speculations about my dialect, but actually, very few people can place it accurately as being Danish (from Copenhagen). I've had English, Welsh, Irish, German, Swiss, Dutch and much more - oh yeah, somebody REALLY dialect challenged thought I was from Gotland... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Vocabulary Test wrote: You said yes to 86% of the existing words.
You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 86% - 0% = 86%.
You are at the top level!
Some there Herself recognised that I didn't: "oxlip" for example.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My wife is not talking to me at the moment, she's the language wiz in the family, but she scored less than me.
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Herself refused to do the test herself, but wanted to see what I missed.
I am not allowed to speculate as to why she doesn't so it herself...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Got 81%. But, hell, English is my other tongue! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Considering the obscurity of some of the words I saw when I took the test, 81% for a non-native speaker is fantastic.
Hydrotropic? Encomiastic? Acetanilide? Chrome doesn't even recognize these words!
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Thanks for making my day!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: my other tongue
So what's your mother tongue? 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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You said yes to 89% of the existing words.
You said yes to 7% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 89% - 7% = 82%.
You are at the top level!
Replied yes to only two non-words: enteropareunia, and poofliness. Sounded like words to me!
The ones that were words that I didn't recognize didn't even sound like words to me, or sounded like they were intentionally made up to serve as 'control' words, like 'guncotton'. Guncotton sounds like it could be word, but also suspiciously sounds like someone made it up just to throw people off.
I guess I are smurter than I thinked!
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Well, the chemists (and pyromaniacs!) would know that guncotton is a real word! 
Nitrocellulose[^]
Note the not particularly successful use as a plastic replacement for elephant ivory billiard balls!
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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It would certainly give a new meaning to a cannon shot ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: You said yes to 89% of the existing words.
You said yes to 3% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 89% - 3% = 86%.
This is a high level for a native speaker.
Grew up in Canada, native English speaker, live in U.S.
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