Declines in Vocabulary Among American Adults Within Levels of Educational Attainment, 1974–2016
23rd July 2019
Increasing educational attainment has apparently not improved verbal ability among Americans. Instead, as educational attainment has increased, those at each educational level are less verbally skilled even though the vocabulary skills of the whole population are unchanged.
July 24th, 2019 at 05:18
Recently, I used the word “bedouin” in a conversation with millennial children, both university graduates and high schoolers. None new what the heck I was talking about. Naturally I offered some help… “A bedouin… you know, like Omar the tent maker”. Again they were foiled.
Add another would to the endangered noun schedule.