CidopFavaldwing CidopFavaldwing
  • 22-01-2017
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How many words are there in the english language?

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Аноним Аноним
  • 22-01-2017
there is no one answer because its hard to decide what counts as a word
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reiley reiley
  • 22-01-2017
"The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of exclamations, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc."
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