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Wiktionary talk:Simple English word list

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IMHO, there are two strange intruders in this word list:

the word form 'closes' [next to the verb 'close' also in the list] and the old pronoun 'thou'.

Jansegers (talk) 12:09, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Combining the BASIC850 + BNC1000Headwords + BNCspoken300 + BNCwritten300 + the four remaining words of this list [ closes, reach, realise, thou ] we get this list of 1461 words:

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This is the maximum list within the boundaries suggested for the simple wiktionary defining vocabulary (respecting the four extra words introduced by my fellow Wiktionarians, namely closes, reach, realise and thou ).