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So how well do you know English?

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    leppie
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    Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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      Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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      Lost User
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      Yeesh - it's hard to think of them on the spot like that. I got 30. The others seem so obvious once you see them. Cheers, Drew.

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        Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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        Marc Clifton
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        leppie wrote:

        Do you know the 100 most common words

        Woman Beer Bed S.. Sleep Football Party etc... [edit]45[/edit] Marc

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          Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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          mmikey7
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          Wow! I got 44! And I'm not even native english speaker. I'm proud of myself for this :) Cool game, it was fun actually, thanks.

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            Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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            Bassam Abdul Baki
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            44 out of a 100. Sadly, that was my entire vocabulary. :)


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              Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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              GuyThiebaut
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              25 - and I am a native speaker. Dilithium , force, jedi, dis and anthropomorphic were not in the list! :doh:

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                Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                Gary R Wheeler
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                Pah. The site's buggy. It doesn't let you enter a complete word before it starts jumping the cursor around. I fucking hate sites that don't manage the focus properly, or clear edit fields that you've already entered stuff into.

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                  Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                  The 100 most common words in whose English?

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                    Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                    Lost User
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                    47 out of 100, and I'm not a native speaker. I'm quite proud of the result :)

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                      The 100 most common words in whose English?

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                      Dirk Higbee
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                      I agree. There were a lot of words not in that list. Love being one of them. Another being goto :laugh: on a more humorous note.

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                        Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        That's meta-data, not worth knowing. On the other hand, my kid used to watch "Between the Lions", and they had a song called "Ten Little Words", which I assume are the ten most common. After hearing it for the ump-teenth time I wrote them down: A The Is That You Of In And It To

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                          Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                          I got 46 :)

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                            Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                            Paul Conrad
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                            38 out of 100.

                            "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                              Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                              AlphaMatrix
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                              Clearly not as well as I should like to think :-( 30 (I am ashamed)

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                                Pah. The site's buggy. It doesn't let you enter a complete word before it starts jumping the cursor around. I fucking hate sites that don't manage the focus properly, or clear edit fields that you've already entered stuff into.

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                                Paul Conrad
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                                I found that very annoying, too. I also question the approach to determining how well someone knows their English based on the system they did.

                                "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                  I agree. There were a lot of words not in that list. Love being one of them. Another being goto :laugh: on a more humorous note.

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                                  Paul Conrad
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                                  I agree. I don't think it was a very accurate approach at determining how good a person's English skills are.

                                  "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                    Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                                    Chris Losinger
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                                    wife and i, playing together, got 50

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                                      Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                                      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                                      38. They're so damned obvious after you see them.

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                                        Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                                        Colin Angus Mackay
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                                        I got 38 out of a hundred - And I thought I doing well... I got most of the possessives and prepositions which seem to make up a fair chunk of the words.

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                                          Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|

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                                          Tim Deveaux
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                                          Almost, but not quite, 42.

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