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fl4regunlast Friday at 2:56 PM1 replyview on HN

apparently 54,000. Seems like it is including even fictional words though in this test (like from fiction novels). Ironically I scored higher on the expert words (18/20) than the "advanced" words (11/20)


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apical_dendritelast Friday at 3:09 PM

plenty of words and phrases originate from fiction

quixotic, scrooge, shangri-la, Uncle Tom, gargantuan, kafkaesque, blurb, milquetoast

and words like cyberspace were first used in fiction

once real people use them, they stop being fictional words

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