I've made my living with words for more decades than I'm comfortable admitting. I suspect, though I've never tried to calculate it, that my written vocabulary is larger than my spoken word vocabulary, but I have no idea why or how.
I fell across this nugget of (k)nowledge the other day on the interweb about the average adult's vocabulary and felt I was among friends, though they probably use a multi-syllabic word for that. However, I suspect none of us uses many or any of these.
Child of Warner Brothers cartoons growing up, my favorite of these is wabbit, though in recent days I've found myself leaning towards Snollygoster.
Sorry, Elmer.
-bill kenny
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