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YuckFoo
Good points all, [belg4mit]. <p>
* If the sample is large enough, the correct percentage of
archaic words will be in the sample, it'll work itself out. <p>
* I had already removed proper nouns, nouns containing any
uppercase letter. I should have noted that, but again I'm
not sure it matters with a large enough sample. <p>
* I'm not sure how words should really be counted, still
looking for a reference myself. For my purpose, I am considering
run, runs, ran, running as unique words. <p>
I'm just looking for a ballpark number. It seems like a good
ballpark to me that if the boy consistently knows 20-25% of
the words in the sample, he should know 20-25% of the words
in $DICT. <p>
If anyone has pointers to real vocabulary development numbers
and counting methods, I'd like to get'em. <p>
YuckFoo
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