When I was in school in Italy I was often told something like: "Now that you enter high school you are expected to know about X words. When you exit you will know Y more.". Are there any statistics of this kind for the english language? How many words does a kid know? And an adult person?
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the average adult knows about 60.000 words, a learned person knows 100.000 words. a 10 year old knows about 20.000 words.
