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Posted on 03-13-05 02:19 PM Link | Quote
Just wondering, mainly for an essay... Does anyone know about how many words there are in the English language?
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Posted on 03-13-05 02:30 PM Link | Quote
Can there be an actual answer to that?
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Posted on 03-13-05 02:40 PM Link | Quote
I don't think there's an answer..that would take awhile to tally up ..if you could do that.
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Posted on 03-13-05 03:08 PM Link | Quote
And then there's dialects and shit. Do those count?
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Posted on 03-13-05 03:42 PM Link | Quote
I don't know, but I would check a dictionary and see how many they have. They are unlikely to include (as already mentioned) dialects and regional slang, but it is all I can suggest.

Of course, your average dictionary won't include medical terminology and things like that, I know that you can buy whole medical dictionaries and stuff too...

But it's a start.
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Posted on 03-13-05 03:43 PM Link | Quote
I wouldn't count all the words in a dictionary even if my life depended on it. Let's come to the conclusion that there are a whole lot of words.
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Posted on 03-13-05 03:46 PM Link | Quote
A possible answer?
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Posted on 03-13-05 03:48 PM Link | Quote
Er, to clarify, I didn't for a second mean that you should **count** the words in a dictionary. Especially when we live in the modern age of online and computer based dictionaries....

Of course, I don't know if places like Dictionary.com have anywhere on their site how many words they have in their database....
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Posted on 03-13-05 03:56 PM Link | Quote
Oh, well it looked like that's what you meant anyway.
But I don't think that dictionary.com has ALL English words though.
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Posted on 03-13-05 03:58 PM Link | Quote
I read somewhere that English is the most extensive language in the world, with about 1,000,000 words. German is the next most comprehensive, at about 500,000 words.

I'm not suprised that German follows, seeing as modern English is mostly derrived from earlier forms of the German langauge

I've also read that English is the hardest language in the world to learn. We have the most grammar and syntax rules, and for every rule there is at least one exception

Fortunately, things are made easier by the fact that our language is not based on social or sexual status, like French or Japanese.


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Posted on 03-13-05 04:37 PM Link | Quote
And there is hardly slang words with it, I hardly think that thoose offical dictionaries have the word Yiff, and yet it's a popular term amongst furries.
Originally posted by Kasumi-Astra
I've also read that English is the hardest language in the world to learn. We have the most grammar and syntax rules, and for every rule there is at least one exception
...so that's why I have more trouble with English even if I actually had more training with English than Swedish.
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Posted on 03-13-05 04:38 PM Link | Quote
I always thought the concept of assigning genders to inanimate objects in languages was rather absurd...

Who knows, maybe English's popularity is caused by its relative "simplicity," in the sense of not having zillions of endings on words...I heard that in languages like Latin, just about every word has some kind of suffix to indicate whether it is the subject, object, etc. Also, English only uses the twenty-six letters, no accented characters...which is important in this age of computers, because you can type English from almost any keyboard that uses its alphabet.
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Posted on 03-13-05 05:17 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Kasumi-Astra

I've also read that English is the hardest language in the world to learn. We have the most grammar and syntax rules, and for every rule there is at least one exception


You'd have fun with French... there are only exceptions. You learn some rule, and then you gotta learn 5374255 exceptions for it.
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Posted on 03-13-05 05:59 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Kawa-oneechan

A possible answer?

*Kawa-oneechan copies and pastes the important bit...

This all being said, I now unequivocally state that as of 11:42 am (Pacific) on 28th day of November of the year 2004, there were approximately 823,481 words in the English Language, plus or minus a handful.

Choose well among them.
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Posted on 03-13-05 07:01 PM Link | Quote
Ah, we
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Posted on 03-13-05 07:15 PM Link | Quote
It's not quite a dictionary, but here ya go.
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Posted on 03-13-05 07:24 PM Link | Quote
I recently read that excluding scientific terms and such, the OED contains about 450,000 words to date, but that figure increases with every new edition.
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Posted on 03-13-05 09:34 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Kawa-oneechan
It's not quite a dictionary, but here ya go.


I thought you linked to urbandictionary.com.

And I
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Posted on 03-13-05 10:19 PM Link | Quote
the number of english words in use is probably 1 million or more. However, the number of "official" english words is the number of words found in the oxford dictionary
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Posted on 03-13-05 10:58 PM Link | Quote
"There are four-hundred thousand words in the English language, and there are seven of which you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. Three-hundred and ninety-nine-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-three......to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous...to be seperated from a group that large. All of you over here...you seven.....baaaad woooords."

Points if people know where that's from. I don't think I'll have to go into the 'seven' but that was back a few decades ago.
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