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  2. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    6 we: Pronoun: 27: 24: Pre-primer 6 say: Verb et al. 28: 19: ... year do first in a 4 way say last for that 5 day get long on I 6 thing make great with it 7 man go ...

  3. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    By age 6, they have approximately 2,600 words of expressive vocabulary and 20,000–24,000 words of receptive vocabulary. [62] Some claim that children experience a sudden acceleration in word learning, upwards of 20 words per day, [58] but it tends to be much more gradual than this. From age 6 to 8, the average child in school is learning 6 ...

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Normative Swedish language spelling dictionary, which includes only commonly used words, currently includes ~126,000 words, [85] after having added 13,500 and removed 9,000 in its latest edition, SAOL 14, plus an additional 200,000 still encountered words in earlier editions. [86] [87] Eastern Armenian: 125,000

  5. Speech tempo - Wikipedia

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    Speakers vary their speed of speaking according to contextual and physical factors. A typical speaking rate for English is 4 syllables per second, [5] but in different emotional or social contexts the rate may vary, one study reporting a range between 3.3 and 5.9 syl/sec, [6] Another study found significant differences in speaking rate between story-telling and taking part in an interview.

  6. Language development - Wikipedia

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    Children learn much of their verbal communication through repetition and observing others. If parents do not speak to their children at this age it can become quite difficult for them to learn the essentials of conversation. [37] The vocabulary of a 1–2 year old should consist of 50 words and can be up to 500.

  7. History of English - Wikipedia

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    The Normans spoke a dialect of Old French, and the comingling of Norman French and Old English resulted in Middle English, a language that reflects aspects of both Germanic and Romance languages and evolved into the English we speak today, where nearly 60% of the words are loanworded from Latin & romance languages like French.

  8. 75 Happy Birthday Paragraphs to Help You Craft Heartfelt ...

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    75 Best Happy Birthday Paragraphs. 1. Wherever you go, you radiate positivity and warmth. Your day should be beautiful and bright—just like you.

  9. Vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Most of the time lemmas do not include proper nouns (names of people, places, companies, etc.). Another definition often used in research of vocabulary size is that of word family. These are all the words that can be derived from a ground word (e.g., the words effortless, effortlessly, effortful, effortfully are all part of the word family ...