Wow I feel like almost all adult native speakers will have heard of a feeding frenzy, a vacant lot and a prestigious award. Those look like good words of the day for speakers of English as a second language of 2-5 years maybe.
right? I had to check myself: "am i that pretentious that I use this many words average people don’t know?"and there’s no good way to ask that question without sounding even more pretentious
Yeah no, you’re fine, I’m an ESL speaker (although for 17 years) so they can’t be that special. But verve and eyrie (seen elsewhere in this thread, from Tolkien) those I actually had to search up. Haha my browsers spellcheck even puts squiggles under eyrie.
weird! never seen the spelling “eyrie” but I’d probably be fine with understanding “aerie” from context. I looked it up too and apparently that’s the same word but ae is NA style
Wow I feel like almost all adult native speakers will have heard of a feeding frenzy, a vacant lot and a prestigious award. Those look like good words of the day for speakers of English as a second language of 2-5 years maybe.
right? I had to check myself: "am i that pretentious that I use this many words average people don’t know?"and there’s no good way to ask that question without sounding even more pretentious
Yeah no, you’re fine, I’m an ESL speaker (although for 17 years) so they can’t be that special. But verve and eyrie (seen elsewhere in this thread, from Tolkien) those I actually had to search up. Haha my browsers spellcheck even puts squiggles under eyrie.
weird! never seen the spelling “eyrie” but I’d probably be fine with understanding “aerie” from context. I looked it up too and apparently that’s the same word but ae is NA style
I had to look them up as well.
TIL.