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96%. The two I missed were misclicks (e.g., I accidentally hit ‘no’ on ‘parboil.’) A number of those were intuition, though.
by cbfrench 7y ago
96%. The two I missed were misclicks (e.g., I accidentally hit ‘no’ on ‘parboil.’)
A number of those were intuition, though.
- shereadsthenews 7y agoGoing on intuition I figured that “boxthorn” and “razorbills” were undoubtedly English words but not knowing them I followed the rules and answered no. They both are, apparently, English words. 87%.
- cbfrench 7y agoPart of the 96% comes, I think, from the fact that I did doctoral work in English lit, which gives me a better “feel” for those sorts of archaisms. I can’t say that I knew all of the words that cropped up in the test, but many of them sounded plausible on the basis of having read quite a bit of pre-19thC stuff.