Talk:Australian magpie
Word list check[change source]
This is the first Simple English page that I have made from the start. As an exercise, I will work through what I wrote and see which words are on the BE 1500 list.
- small, medium, large yes, size yes; mid- no; big no
- live, lives (as in abide) no, living yes; find, found no. How to reword “It lives in most parts of Australia“ and “They live in bush land”?
- Relation yes, related no. Eliminating related could be hard.
- cm: centi- and meter are in the list, meter links to metre
- back, neck, tail yes
- patch no; wing, fly yes
- cm – centi- yes, meter links to metre
- type (of) no
- ground, insect, walk yes; lizard, hop no. Can unlink insect, do not know how to do hop.
- structure yes(!); look yes; perch, stand, sit no
- people yes; chase, away no
Pelagic (talk) 20:19, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:VOA Special English Word Book
- sit, stand yes, perch no
- live, find, kind, chase, away yes
- related, type, hop no