W. Bruce Cameron - Dog Words

I’ve read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account. Most people won’t buy their dogs a smartphone, though, so you don’t see too many canines tweeting their friends unless they have access to a computer.

Probably from the dogs’ point of view there are a lot of words they would just as soon not know, the “N” word being the most obnoxious. Here’s an excerpt from a dog’s wiki-dictionary of known words:

Sit (vb): A word that means if you sit down your owner will give you a treat.

Oddly, Sit works only some of the time.

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