English Language Nears One Million Words

[sngwthme]

For anyone who may love words as I do you will appriciate this information. I found it quite interesting.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article357418.ece

[dirtface]

Thanks sngwthme,

That is an interesting artical. I have always been curious about the origins of words. They can make such fascinating conversation pieces sometimes can\'t they

[gkg]

hey cool - sngwtme - seems like a very fun job, counting all the words...

[buswolley]

WOW, makes you want to say something brilliant, magnificent, luminous...oooh I know how about -- resplendent.  No, wonder it is so easy to be misunderstood.

[d6]

The # of words would be significantly less if they did not count such gems as "bootylicious".

 

in austria & germany we have the "society for preservation of the german language" ; besides other things, they pick the non-word or anti-word of the year.

I could imagine if there was anything similar in the UK, or  USA -  "bootylicious"  would be a top fav.  

[dirtface]

Yeh! There are certainly too many \'words\' that are just pollution. I do like the choice of resplendent. Nice pick. Makes for a very lucid description IMNSHO.