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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
Anonymous
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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 ... 
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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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86% corrected. A smidgen discombobulated to have scored so poorly.
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I think I failed. I couldn't get past the Click Yes or No to start screen.
Marc
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84/0%. About half the ones I didn't recognize would probably be opaque to anyone who didn't take college level botany and zoology courses. OTOH since it looks like it gives random lists of words I suspect our results aren't directly comparable anyway. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Maximilien wrote: If you're (g)interested (and if you're a UK resident with a driver's license)
Yes...
Maximilien wrote: the position will only last for six months
Assuming your driving licence manages that long as well...
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They could never afford Nagy in any case.
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I'm flying in from the States on Sunday. Any advice for a hillbilly from Tennessee on what to expect? My main interest is learning more about the pubs.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Hire a translator. 
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What, no one there speaks hillbilly!?! 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Nay, lad, nary a one.
The Edinburgh accent is a lot softer than a Glaswegian accent so you should be ok.
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The Halfway House (24 Fleshmarket Close) did good beer and haggis when I was there.
You can probably find a few more on Camera's site: Pub Finder[^]
If you've got time between pubs, The Real Mary King's Close[^] is well worth a visit, as is the Camera Obscura[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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