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Chevrolet Equinox Real World MPG
I understand how you feel , our equinox awd only acheived 32 mpg ( cdn gals are 1/3 bigger than us ) GM advertised getting 41 , like hell !!! instaneous readout useless ,fluctuates wildly , anyway installed a performance chip ( possible gains up to + 6 mpg ) and last long run got 37+ still short but an improvement . We drive very economicaly and find that GM simply lied . and sevice reps only concerned with GM relations not the customer, theres not many satisfied owners & lots like us who drive carefully to obtain good mileage and fail to do so.
PS we have 20000k on our 2011
ohc6sprint Posts: 23First report on this 2 month old vehicle with 3,000 miles. Not a day goes by without me, or my wife saying that we love this car.
I have been watching forum posts on this vehicle for over 3 years and at times wondered if I would be happy with the fuel economy, which was a primary reason for choosing the 4 cyl, non all wheel drive version. I live in Western Pennsylvania which is very hilly, but not mountainous. The 4 cyl has been more than adequate on performance in my opinion. The 6 speed gearing takes care of any steep hills.
I have had my Nox for 2 months now and have had 7 fill ups:
Tank 1, 25.6 mpg DIC, 25.1 actual, avg speed 32.5 mph (city & hwy)
Tank 2, 24.0 mpg DIC, 22.2 actual, avg speed 27.5 mph (city & hwy)
Tank 3, 26.1 mpg DIC, 25.2 actual, avg speed 31.6 mph (city & hwy)
Tank 4, 25.4 mpg DIC, 24.2 actual, avg speed 32.0 mph (city & hwy)
Tank 5, 24.2 mpg DIC, 23.4 actual, avg speed 28.5 mph (city & hwy)
Tank 6, 25.3 mpg DIC, 23.4 actual, avg speed 29.9 mph (city & hwy)
Tank 7, 31.3 mpg DIC, 32.7 actual, avg speed 51.7 mph (trip)
What this shows is that my combined mileage for city & hwy (tanks 1 thru 6) is 25.1 mpg DIC and 23.9 mpg calculated, or 5% less than what the DIC states. My average speed was 30.3 mph, which shows that there is good bit of highway driving mixed in with the city driving. Too difficult to keep track of the exact percentage of each.
My last fill up was after a 354 mile trip from Pittsburgh to Ohio, in which I got 29.3 mpg (DIC) going out and improved to 31.3 (DIC) coming back without resetting. That meant that I actually did better than 31.3 on the trip back as it pulled up the 29.3 average to 31.3.
Going out, there were 4 people in the Nox, no AC, traveling 60-70 mph, on interstate (70%) roads and slower on 2 lane (30%) roads with an occasional town, a few stop lights, and some 35 mph zones.
Coming back, with 4 people, I did more interstate (80%) driving, used the AC, but kept my speed at 55-60 mph. I watched as my trip average continued to climb to 31.3, knowing that I was getting higher if it was continuing to climb. My big surprise was when I filled up and instead of a 5% DIC overstatement error, it calculated out to 32.7 mpg and a 4.5% understatement on the DIC. I did the calculation at the pump and was so surprised that I went back and tried to put more gas into the tank, thinking that it was not full. The nozzle clicked off each time I squeezed it, telling me "hey the tank is full." I did manage to put .5 gallons more into the tank, but it was over full and topped off more than any of my previous fill ups. I will have to see if the DIC understates on my next trip. I wonder if it is due to some software formula used by the DIC. Anyone out there (those of you who check DIC error) have a similar experience where the error flips from 5% overestimated to 4% underestimated on a trip?
So, I averaged over 32 mpg with the AC on and with a full load people. The elevation of both ends of the trip were very close, so there wasn't an overall elevation factor involved. There was no noticeable wind in either direction that would account for a meaningful impact on economy. The major difference was that I drove 10 mph slower on the interstate on the return trip. My tire pressure was 38 to 39 psi, temperature was 50 degrees going out and 75 returning. I also checked my odometer calibration the first week that I had the car and it was right on.
So, needless to say, I was very pleased knowing that at times I averaged a good bit over 32 mpg, maybe 34 considering all the times that I had stopped for lights, driven at 70 mph and went through reduced speed zones on the two lane roads.
The EPA test for hwy mileage is an indoor test that does not involve stops, hills, wind, cold temperatures, using the A/C or exceeding 60 mph. Probably, the EPA applies a correction factor for that.
I would think that the EPA obtains a sample vehicle from the manufacturer, tests it and then gives a mpg number for that vehicle. That is the number that the manufacturer then publicizes. So, by my experience, one cannot say that GM is misrepresenting on the 32 mpg claim, only that one may have a Equinox with a problem, or a driver that fails to understand all the factors and the influence that each has on mileage.
I would buy another Equinox without any hesitation. Hope this helps those that are concerned about mileage.
H i your comments are very interesting , you seem to have bought one of the few Noxs that seem to achieve what GM claim, but then you have the fwd version ours and many others who have the awd version have economy issues, other then that we do like our vehicle, just upset with fuel economy, and we have done very careful checks on hwy use only ( not interested in city use ) just what we can get from point A-B hwy not close to GM claims.
ray80 Posts: 1,233'Coming back, with 4 people, I did more interstate (80%) driving, used the AC, but kept my speed at 55-60 mph.'
I think you would find thats the magic speed for getting the best milage on the highway. If you happen the match the tach numbers you see at 55-60 at lower speeds it should also do well.
cmhj2000 Posts: 182Since my last post I went on 3K mile trip thru Pa, Oh, In & Wis. Most of my driving was interstate, average speed 67 MPH. Overall MPG was 30.6 DIC ,near 30 using the paper method.
Shortly after the trip had one short trip where I drove 350 miles hitting about 55 MPH. Mileage was near 32 MPG.
This is on a 2012 FWD 4cyl. LS now with 5K miles logged.
Fuel used was in most cases with ethanol at the assumed 10% level.
mike69440 Posts: 41.) 20,000 mile break in. (Not just the motor, but the trans, brakes and drivetrain have a lot of internal friction.)
2.) Only achieveable in walm weather.
3.) Tires inflated to 38 Psig.
4.) Do not exceed 3000 RPM, unless a large truck is barreling up your rear.
5.) Anticipate braking and slowing.
6.) Do not use cruise control to resume speed, it is to agressive.
7. Let the tranny upsift, then give more throttle to slowly build speed.
8. 67-69 MPH on cruise control. Try to keep tranmisson in 5th or 6th gear. Mileage drops quite a bit above 72 MPH. Driving at 60 MPH will get you killed, so don't obsruct traffic. Keep it at 65-70.
9. Coast on significantly long steep downhill grades.
I got 30.6 MPG in 450 Miles of MA-NH driving, including hills.
kelsan1 Posts: 34Just a note to say that I own a 2011 Terrain and did own a 2011 Nox, both 4 cyl fwd, each of them average low to mid 20's around town and in highway driving they routinely get high 20's @ 65mph w/air running and if I go up to 75 it drops to 25mph average. This is by the DIC and I just traded the Nox in on 2013 LTZ 4 cyl, awd and with 1700 miles on the odo it averages 25mpg + on the DIC or by manual calculations since I picked it up 2 weeks ago.
IMHO you can get the mileage per gallon out of the engines it just takes knowing where your power curve is and how you drive. For myself that is keeing the tach below 2000 rpm for best results. Hope this helps.
Can't figure out the mileage. Drove from Clovis NM to Temple TX last weekend in my 2013 LT2 and averaged 33.9. Coming back on the same roads it was 28.8. My 2011 Malibu routinely gets 34-36 on the road with its 4. My 2003 DeVille Cadillac got better mileage on the road - 30-32 with a 275 HP V8. I am looking forward to finding a certified Cadillac XTS in the next couple of years. I'd like the V6 as well as better gas mileage than the Equinox. Also when you floor the Equinox you hear a sharp engine noise - more of a whine than a roar. Sounds really tacky.
Can't figure out why the gas mileage is poor with the Equinox. You would have expected GM to fix it in the last 3 years. It was bad in 2010. Interesting to note that the ECO button does nothing. Why put it in?
trans_am_man Posts: 2We bought a new 3.0 litre V6 2012 Equinox in February. It has gotten awesome mileage since new. The highest was 29.2 on the highway, the lowest was 17.7 in the city. We routinely average 19 to 20 in city and always get at least 25 to 27 on highway. This is by actual calculations, not counting on the DIC to be correct. i am a huge fan we now have almost 15000 miles and have not had any problem at all. I run fully synthetic oil that I change myself every 3000 miles, maybe that helps????? I love this vehicle and would purchase another in a heartbeat.
gmcustsvc Posts: 4,057Good morning rrovernut,
We're sorry that you are not satisfied with your Equinox. In an earlier post, I noticed that you're writing from Canada. Have you already contacted GM of Canada about this? If you would like to, they can be contacted at 800-263-3777 (Hours: M-F 7:30am - 11:30pm, Sat 7:30am - 6:00 EST).
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"It was a very positive start," Halifax County School Superintendent Dr. Merle Herndon said of Monday's opening day of school.
A total of 5,487 students attended the county's seven elementary, two secondary schools and two early learning centers on Monday, she said.
Herndon spent her morning visiting county schools greeting the students and talking with parents.
"It was very invigorating to be out in the schools seeing everyone," she said.
This year, each school has an appointed mentor, and Herndon said she is the mentor for Cluster Springs Elementary School.
Herndon began the first day of school helping serve students breakfast at Cluster Springs Elementary School.
After leaving Cluster Springs, she visited the two early learning centers where 247 pre-k students attended on opening day, the middle school, transportation department and maintenance department before visiting South Boston Elementary.
In the afternoon she headed to Scottsburg Elementary, Sinai Elementary and Sydnor Jennings Elementary.
"Whatever schools I don't make it to today, I will catch on Tuesday," Herndon said Monday afternoon.
While visiting the different schools, the new superintendent said she had principals write down brief descriptions of their opening day experience.
One principal wrote, "Pleased with the opening." Another said, "Great start. Super first day," and two others agreed the first day was "awesome."
Because it was the first day, Herndon said school officials anticipate attendance to be low.
Herndon said Central Office instructional team members will meet each day at 1:30 p.m. at the beginning of the school year to review attendance numbers with Kathy Reagan, who the superintendent described as the Infinite Campus expert.
Infinite Campus is the computer program used to track school attendance.
Only one glitch was reported during opening day, the superintendent said, referring to computer malfunctions at Cluster Springs Elementary early Monday morning.
"The computers were down at 7:30 when I got to the school, but within the hour they were back up, and it was just at Cluster Springs," she said.
"Knock on wood, that's the only one I heard of," Herndon added.
Tweaks in transportation will need to be made as the first week of school continues, she said, noting some students have moved over the summer, and bus drivers continue to work out their routes.
"All in all, we had a very successful first day of school," she said crediting the principals, teachers, bus drivers and others who worked together in the individual schools.


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Spring is in the air and it 'twas a busy week for me. It's amazing how problems seem to crop up in waves, and true to form, this was a week of leash aggression and territorial barking.
Sifting through the questions that came in after my (please continue to send in your questions!) the dominant theme also centered around leash pulling and reactivity to other dogs and people. I highlight two cases:
Reggae is a two year old Mini-Dachshund who "thinks he's Napolean." When I arrived, I was met by a frenzied chorus of barking. I instructed his owners to stand back while I assessed the situation. Ten pounds of sausage dog charged with a bull's determination. "Oh! He likes you!" his mom assured me, "Usually he bites!" And it's true…he did like me.
By the end of the three-minute assessment, Reggae's tail is up, his narrow little face is scrunched into a canine grin and his front paws are resting on my knee. He welcomed my gentle caress and I gave his owners the good news: Reggae isn't an aggressive dog. He is a passive dog who feels compelled to be the family guardian.
Yes, he weighs just ten pounds. Yes, he stands no more than eight inches at the shoulder. But because Reggae perceives that the people aren't in control, he feels he must assume it. He would much prefer that his people be in charge because he's just not that good at the job—so he's afraid and biting out of fear. His reactivity is fear-based: he's so afraid of what might happen that he bites to ward off strangers and other dogs. He's really a friendly, sweet thing, and I happily told his owners that I could, rather quickly, teach them how to help him feel more safe.
Apparently this was the last thing they expected to hear: they'd been told medication and a shock collar were their only options. Can you imagine? Here is a frightened, sweet natured Doxie who "ain't misbehaving," just reacting in what he feels is self-defense as he longs for direction. The solution came within the hour and as you see in the picture, some gentling reassurance worked wonders. He walked calmly on the leash and greeted Balderdash with civility.
Next up: Rocky, a lab/hound mix who shares his space with a enthusiastic and loving crowd of people and other dogs. Rocky's life is busy and full. At one moment, he's backing up Coco the Bulldog as they bark at passersby. The next, he's leaping over (and terrifying) Sparky, a Maltese mix, to get first dibs on any possible human attention.
Rocky weighs 80 pounds and can pack an inadvertent punch when he makes an airborne grab for a treat or pat. More than one dog fight has broken out over Rocky's overzealous love of the spotlight and the lovable lunkhead often finds himself cooling his heels in the laundry room to keep the peace in the house. But Rocky "ain't misbehaving," he's just a passionate young dog whose uncivilized behavior is causing more isolation than inclusion—and it is this vicious cycle that needs to be addressed.
I want to leave you this week with a new way to consider a dog's behavior. A dog will generally respond to an unfamiliar situation in one of four ways:
Excitement: A wild response doesn't always highlight a dog's joy—it is often a stressed response that is reinforced with human attention. A habitual jumper is often addicted to a behavior that has been reinforced. Pushing isn't discipline in a dog's eyes—it's confrontational play.
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Referencing: When a dog is trained to some basic routines and commands he can be encouraged to reference his people. It is a natural reaction to look to a leader to define the right course of action: people need the training to learn how to communicate and listen in a language their dog can comprehend.
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HARTSHORNE — Hartshorne football coach Bill Williams wasted little time after the 2012-13 school year ended. He started the Miners' Summer Pride Camp on May 28, ran it for a month and then restarted it July 8.
Though officially a strength and conditioning camp open to both boys and girls of all sports, Williams said he's asked for 100 percent attendance from his football players. One missed day since July 8 means 100 100-yard sprints — or "gassers" — a second missed day doubles the number of gassers, while a third means a one-game suspension.
"I don't think we've had but one athlete that missed a day," Williams said Tuesday. "My goodness, it makes it fun, but at the same time, it's a lot of kids to work out. There aren't very many schools that have 52, 53 kids showing up for varsity workouts in the morning. But we have all the coaches on board, so we have it broken down to where we feel like we're getting something out of it."
Summer Pride runs Monday through Thursday starting at 6:30 a.m. Williams said the early start-time both shows commitment and allows those players with jobs to get to them on time.
A typical session brings out about 50 high school students, plus approximately 12 junior-high students. Williams said the junior-high camp, which starts at about 8:30 a.m., isn't mandatory, and because some of his eighth-grade students work, they choose to practice with the high school.
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After the destruction of superstorm Sandy, many on the East Coast had no choice but to skip work. But emergency room technician Marsha Hedgepeth of Toms River, N.J., wasn't about to miss her shift. The roads were flooded, so Hedgepeth swam part of the way to work.
In an interview with Asbury Park Press, Hedgepeth said, "I dove into water, and I couldn't see the steps I was walking down because they were covered in water. So I said the easiest way to get there is just swim until I reach the ground."
Fortunately, Hedgepeth didn't have to swim the entire way. The experienced surfer swam about 200 yards through murk and debris. After reaching a nearby highway, she hitched a ride with utility workers. She arrived about six hours before her shift was set to begin.
Hedgepeth tried to call the hospital to see if she was needed, but she (along with millions of others) had no telephone service. The 43-year-old said, "You know you just have to be there. You're never going to have enough staff in a state of emergency."
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The tribe hosted a check-presentation ceremony Tuesday at Lake of Isles. It marked the fourth year that proceeds from the event have been donated to the American Diabetes Association and the third year the Joslin Diabetes Center has been a recipient.
Rodney Butler, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, and Richard E. Sebastian, a former councilor, founded the event and remain its co-chairmen.
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Two Seaford college students were within shouting distance of President Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney when the two squared off Tuesday night's pivotal second presidential debate at Hofstra University, and both described the experience as one of the best moments of their young lives.
Ashley Negilia and Kaley Kalista were among a select few Hofstra University students that had the chance to volunteer as ushers in the debate hall Tuesday. The Seaford residents then were granted seats for the big debate, which was viewed by an estimated television audience of more than 65 million.
"It was probably one of the more amazing things I have done in my life," said Neglia, a graduate of Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Syosset who is a junior at Hofstra double majoring in English and History with a minor in Sociology. "It was unreal."
Neglia and Kalista both arrived at the debate site inside the David. S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex at 4 p.m. and began seating the crowd around 7 p.m. two hours before Obama and Romney took the stage. When the town hall-style debated wrapped up just before 10:40 p.m., the ushers handed out CSPAN tote bags as a parting gift to the crowd, which featured politicians and key supporters of the Romney and Obama campaigns as well as 300 Hofstra students selected in a lottery.
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After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.
From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi's adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in our time, he finds the "stages, transitions, arguments" that define us. A newly divorced real estate agent can't resist invading his reticent girlfriend's privacy, but the information he finds reveals only his callously shallow curiosity. A couple come together through an illicit cigarette and a song shared over the din of a Chinese restaurant. A widower revisiting the Scottish island he'd treasured with his wife learns how difficult it is to purge oneself of grief. And throughout, friends gather regularly at dinner parties and perfect the art of cerebral, sometimes bawdy banter about the world passing before them.
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A pair of 1,000-yard rushers from area Three Rivers Conference schools have been named to the Illinois Football Coaches Association all-state teams.
Fulton's Austin Regenwether was one of 18 players selected for the honor in Class 1A, and Erie/Prophetstown's Nick Williams was selected to the 18-player Class 3A squad.
"It's a great honor; we're all very proud of him and feel he's very deserving of it," Fulton coach Patrick Lower said of the honor for Regenwether, a senior fullback/linebacker.
The 5-foot-10, 180-pound Regenwether rushed for 1,233 yards on 198 carries, scored 18 touchdowns and was a unanimous first-team all-conference pick on offense. He also had a team-high 118 tackles and earned first-team honors on defense for the Steamers (5-4).
"We were hoping and counting on him to have a big year, and he did," Lower said. "Especially with the injury to our quarterback (Ethan Jones), we knew he'd be the focus of other teams and he still gained 1,000 yards and had 18 touchdowns and had just two fumbles. When we gave him the ball we knew he was going to get at least four yards."
Williams, a 5-10, 185-pound senior, was named the Most Valuable Player in the Three Rivers North Division. He was a unanimous pick at running back after rushing for 2,097 yards and 24 touchdowns.
"It was fun to watch him," Erie/Prophetstown coach Chuck Milem said. "He was a physical runner but had the finesse to make the spin move and show all the features of a running back."
Lower said the all-state players were selected by regional and class representatives after being nominated by their coaches.
"You think about all the schools that are 1A, and for him to be among the elite of the good players, it's pretty special," Lower said of Regenwether. "He has done nothing but work as hard as he can to achieve this, yet he'd probably say he'd give it up in a second to make the playoffs."
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A top performer in professional tests. Like most stainless-steel stockpots, it has a disk bottom made of fast-heating aluminum encased in less heat-sensitive stainless steel. Unlike the pricier All-Clad pot, it doesn't carry the aluminum core all the way up the sides, but this doesn't appear to have much impact on its performance; in one test at a foodie magazine, its performance was deemed "very similar" to the All-Clad's. Owners at Amazon.com and ChefsCatalog.com also report that this pot delivers even heat and does a good job keeping a steady simmer.
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Review Credibility: Very Good Although this is an old review, it's still the most thorough test of soup pots we found. Editors at Cook's Illustrated magazine test nine 12-quart stockpots, including the Cuisinart Chef's Classic Stainless 12-Qt. Stockpot with Cover. They boil water, cook pasta and corn, and prepare large batches of chili. In general, they find that heavier pots provide more even heat, while a wider shape is convenient for cooking and cleanup. Large, easy-to-grip handles are also a plus. Three pots are recommended, one of them highly -- but most of the others also perform fairly well.
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Review Credibility: Good In more than 175 reviews, the Cuisinart Chef's Classic Stainless 12-Qt. Stockpot with Cover earns an overall rating of 4.4 stars from owners. Most say it is well made, attractive and easy to clean. However, we did see several reports of damage to the finish, including rust, stains and pitting. We also saw a couple of complaints that the handles get hot and the large handle rivets are a nuisance.
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Review Credibility: Good We found about 25 user reviews for Cuisinart Chef's Classic stockpots at this site (including the 12-Qt. Stock Pot with Cover and the smaller 6- and 8-quart versions). It earns a high rating of 4.8 stars overall from users, who say it is stylish, well constructed, a great performer and easy to clean. A couple of users, however, say that the pot's walls are on the thin side and might not satisfy cooks who intend to use it as a "real heavy-duty workhorse."
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SAN ANTONIO - A dog named Tiger died Wednesday during surgery at Animal Care Services after his owner allegedly struck him repeatedly with a machete.
Juan Mendiola, 29, was arrested on animal cruelty charges Tuesday after police responded to his apartment complex at 6200 NE Loop 410.
Witnesses said they saw Mendiola beating the dog repeatedly with the machete.
The dog survived through the night, but died on the operating table Wednesday morning.
Mendiola faces a misdemeanor charge for now, but the district attorney's office has the option to up that charge to the felony level.
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Created Spaces: John Ashbery's Textual and Domestic Environments
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By Eric Lorberer
When Micaela Morrisette first mentioned the idea of a Created Spaces symposium on John Ashberys domestic environments, I was elated. I had recently composed a verbo-visual presentation concerning the untitled poem by Ashbery that graces a magnificent, Siah Armajani-designed bridge at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (a presentation I have been privileged to give in several cities around the country, and to publish in a slightly abridged textual form in the fine literary magazine jubilat). Working on this talk gave me the welcome excuse to re-read John Ashberys amazing body of work, and to discover in it a finely-tuned exaltation of spatiality I hadnt quite noticed before—an important, self-regulating corrective to the temptation some readers may have to view the work as too abstract. Visits to the poets homes in Hudson and Manhattan confirmed my sense of Ashbery as a profoundly proprioceptive poet, and for a moment I toyed with dropping everything so I could write about these environments vis-à-vis the texts that have provided me and countless others with such sheer joy.
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By Anatoly Liberman
Question: How large is an average fluent speaker's vocabulary?
Answer: I have often heard this question, including its variant: "Is it true that English contains more words than any other (European) language?" The problem is that "an average fluent speaker" does not exist. Also, it is important to distinguish between how many words we recognize (our so-called passive vocabulary) and how many we use in everyday communication (active vocabulary). The size of people's active vocabulary depends on their needs, but it is rarely large. Thus, five-year olds can say everything they want, but if they are read to and if grownups speak to them all the time, they understand complicated tales and the content of their parents' conversation amazingly well (oftentimes much better than one could wish for). Some people cultivate their conversational skills and make an effort to use "sophisticated" words in their dealings with the outside world; others are happy to remain at the level of first-graders. One of the most memorable events in my teaching career happened about thirty years ago when a student approached me after a lecture and, having complimented me (they always do in such cases), added: "But I don't understand half of the words you use." Ever since that day I have worked systematically on reducing my "public" vocabulary but sometimes still forget myself.
Our passive vocabulary depends on our reading habits. Since "great classics" are being frowned upon as elitist, the younger generation has trouble understanding even 19th-century English (Jane Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, and so on, through Henry James and the utterly forgotten Galsworthy), while publishers promote books written more or less in Basic English. Students get tired of following those authors' synonyms, idioms, and convoluted syntax (their greatest compliments are matter of fact and down to earth, while all digressions are castigated as rambling). The same is true, to an even greater extent, of their attempts to read Defoe, Fielding, and Swift. For some Americans of college age even the vocabulary of Mark Twain poses difficulties. It is hard to believe that Mark Twain, like Jack London and Charles Dickens, was self-taught. Yet quite a few of our best and brilliantly educated writers did not make use of an extensive vocabulary. Oscar Wilde is a typical example. Others, like Dickens and Meredith, let alone James Joyce, made a heroic effort to use as many rare and learned words as possible.
Good dictionaries of English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, etc. seem to be equally thick. In a dictionary containing about 60,000 words one can find practically everything one needs. Webster's Unabridged features seven or eight times more. Obviously, none of us needs to know so much. But perhaps two features distinguish English from its neighbors: an overabundance of synonyms (because of the partly unhealthy influx of Romance words) and the ubiquity of slang. French also overflows with argot, but English dictionaries of slang (British, American, Canadian, Australian) are almost unbelievably thick. This makes it harder to master current English than, for example, German, but each language has its difficulties. English resorts to all the usual international words (music, radio, antibiotic, and the like), while Icelandic prefers native coinages for such concepts. It appears that whether you want to learn a foreign language or your own you have to make a sustained effort. But then this is what the sweat of one's brow is for. Only Adam had an easy life: none of the objects around him had a name, and he was instructed to call them something (presumably he remembered his own neologisms). His offspring cannot expect to find themselves in linguistic paradise.
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Count and recount.
Verbs meaning "narrate" often go back to the idea of mentioning things in order, that is, by implication, to counting. Almost the only modern sense of Engl. tell is "to say something, relate," but its old meaning "to count" has been kept alive in idioms and set phrases, such as all told, untold riches, and tell beads, as well as in its derivative teller. In German we find zählen "to count" and erzählen "to narrate." The development was the same as in English, except that English has lost its ancient prefixes, while German has preserved them. Old French counter ~ cunter (from Latin computare), unconnected with counter-, as in counterargument and so forth, meant both "reckon" and "relate"; hence the meaning of the borrowed English verb recount "tell in detail." French conter "to tell (a story)" is different from compter "to count, compute," but this difference is evident only on paper: in speech the two words are homophones.
Over: Is it overused?
I am afraid it is. Prepositions tend to oust their synonyms. This is what happened to Engl. on, for example. We think on, write on, produce entries on, and read on something, though about seems more natural. Now over has become a preposition trodden to death. Suspicions, disagreements, concerns, and controversies are almost invariably "over." Since I received this question, I began paying attention. Sure enough, over dominates the scene. "If talks break down over the continuing settlement expansion…," "…died unexpectedly over the weekend," "details will be released over the next few days," and more of the same. This trend, as I now know, although not recent, has probably little to recommend it. I understand that some work can be completed over the weekend, but dying over the weekend? Why not during? Won't details be released in a few days or a few days later? It is convenient not to suffer from overchoice and say, for example, as to instead of any other preposition ("my opinion as to this matter," and the like) or to use over as a universal substitute, but aren't we all staunch supporters of diversity? Why not extend this attitude to language?
Spelling in our life
None of us, I am sure, will live long enough to see English spelling reformed, but it is useful to remind the public that some time in the past the reform was uppermost in many people's minds. Some discussants were more tolerant than the others. Here is the beginning of a letter to the editor written in December 1892:
"People generally think spelling to be a thing of great importance. I never have been able to bring myself to think so. If a word or two be spelt wrongly in a letter, the recipient will commonly set his correspondent down as an illiterate and half-educated man. But this is great nonsense. Spelling according to established custom should be maintained in principle, but in letter-writing should be regarded as of small importance. …men of gift are fed on things and on ideas, and to them words and the spelling of words are very secondary natters."
How reassuring! I wonder whether the inverse theorem is true, namely, that any bad speller is "a man or woman of gift." I cannot judge. My students give free reign to their imagination, nurture deep-seeded distrust of the educational process, and refuse to be straight-jacketed. In the meantime the Royal Spanish Academy lopped two letters off the Spanish alphabet and got rid of accents. If the accent marks are gone, I will never stop weeping, for, when I read Italian, I constantly check my pronunciation with the help of a dictionary (is the stress on the penultimate or on the antepenultimate syllable?), but Spanish used to be so convenient! Alas, books in Spanish are not printed for me, and native speakers know their stresses without dictionaries. A linguist is always born in a wrong place or at a wrong time.
Teetotal and a pleasant surprise
Some time ago I received a letter that deserves to be made known to all the readers of this blog. Here it is.
I thought that I would drop you a line for the fantastic account of the word 'Teetoal' you gave in an article I read on the internet. My hometown is Preston, Lancashire in the UK and we have the privilege of the grave of Richard Turner being in one of our churchyards. I did a photoshoot recently and included some of the photos of this gravestone in my Flickr photostream. In the description, I included a copy of the 'Teetoal' account you gave. (With appropriate credit of course).
I thought you might care to view this at sometime and so, this is the link to the aforementioned photostream.
Thanks for your time in reading this email.
Best regards, Paul.
Anatoly Liberman is the author of Word Origins…And How We Know Them as well as An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction. His column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears here, each Wednesday. Send your etymology question to him care of firstname.lastname@example.com; he'll do his best to avoid responding with "origin unknown."
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The Spanish accent marks are not, of course, "gone". The 2010 RAE recommendations remove accents in five words and five words only, none of them affecting the placement of stress.
Whereas the 1999 RAE orthography prescribed "sólo, éste, ése, aquél" in the meanings "only, this one, that one, yonder one" respectively, and "solo, este, ese, aquel" in the meanings "alone, this, that, yon" respectively, the 2010 orthography uses the latter forms exclusively. (This includes the feminine and plural forms of the words, of course).
As the RAE FAQ says: "Sin embargo, ese empleo tradicional de la tilde en el adverbio 'solo' y los pronombres demostrativos no cumple el requisito fundamental que justifica el uso de la tilde diacrítica, que es el de oponer palabras tónicas o acentuadas a palabras átonas o inacentuadas formalmente idénticas, ya que tanto 'solo' como los demostrativos son siempre palabras tónicas en cualquiera de sus funciones." (Note the continued presence of stress-marking accents in this sentence.) Although it is possible to construct sentences which are now ambiguous in meaning, it is equally possible to avoid them, for example by writing "solamente" rather than "solo" where necessary.
In addition, the 1999 orthography prescribed writing "ó" rather than "o" (meaning "or") between dates, to avoid confusion with zero; this is no longer permitted.
Apparently "tee-totally" was used in 1810.
"She 's as good a piece of horse flesh as ever viasfoa/d- ed—I'll be tee-totally damned if she an't."The savage, by Piomingo, a headman and warrior of the Muscogulgee (Philadelphia, 1810) p. 263
If anything's to be wept for, it's the loss of accent marks in Russian. The Russian learner has absolutely no hope of pronouncing any unknown word intelligibly, never mind correctly, and must weep, moan, look in the dictionary, and/or curse Peter the Great, who sensibly dropped the grave and circumflex accents but failed to keep the acute.
Modern demotic Greek could have removed more accents than it did. It would have been plausible to omit the acute on barytones (words stressed on the antepenult, or on the initial syllable if there is no antepenult), which would dispose of perhaps 75% of all acutes. I don't think there are any such simple generalizations available about Russian stress, though.
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word".
-Andrew Jackson
Also, variations by Mark Twain.
Re count/recount (and zählen/erzählen), in Italian we have "contare" (count) and "raccontare" (tell), both from Latin compŭtare.
I was wrong to speak of dates specifically: that was just the RAE's example, but "ó" was traditionally used between any pair of numbers. A Spanish friend of mine says he will continue to use it in handwriting, where o and 0 are more easily mistaken than in print.
Also, for "Russian learner" above read "Russian-learner".
Count and recount:
Hebrew experienced a similar sense development in the root s-f-r.
Siper means (he) told; safar means (he) counted. Mispar is number, sefer is book.
Cf: Tally
English cipher comes from the Semitic root s-f-r.
Also: English reckon can mean think or add. Hebrew khashav means (he) thought; khishev means (he) calculated. Makhshev is computer, makhshava is (a) thought.


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