- Teenagers develop a broad vocabulary of 40,000 words by the age of 16.
- Linguists have found that teenagers use 800 words on a daily basis even though they know many more.
- Tony McEnery found the top 20 words include 'but' 'yeah' and 'no' by analysing teenagers blogs and looking at 100,000 words.
- Sheffield University have found teenagers know 40,000 words and graduates know 60,000 words.
- Jean Gross has said 'Teen's have always had there own language.'
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