Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Jonathan Lighter]

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JL


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> I don't know what a palisade is, either, though I do know the
> pronunciation. Perhaps I got that wrong on the GMAT. Is there a litmus test
> of vocabulary people must know?
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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> On Oct 10, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <
> geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
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> > I'm giving a mid-term in phonetics, and have asked students to
> transcribe some words. So far, here are words that at least five students
> (out of 63, almost all native speakers of American or Canadian English )
> don't know:
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> > choral
> > palisade
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> > sigh....
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