Hazel Danson from the NUT, who teaches five and six-year-olds, says those who are reading quite well at this age might misread the made-up words, for example by mistaking "osk" for "ask".

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The Constitution is made up of words, and those words have plain and obvious meanings.

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Artificial intelligence researchers at RPI want to do things like improve Watson's mathematical ability and help it quickly figure out the meaning of new or made-up words.

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The band, in its own words, is made up of Maori musicians, a Samoan beat master and a Kiwi horn section.

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But some literacy experts and teaching unions say the test can mean good readers, who struggle with made-up words, can be labelled as failures.

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Children at the end of Year 1 will be asked to read 20 words and 20 "made-up words" such as "zog" or "vot" to their teachers.

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