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Entries from February 2006

How many words are there in the English language

February 6th, 2006 · No Comments

A blogger after my own heart, Benjamin Zimmer, brother of Loom science writer Carl, today posted an item explaining why a recent statement that there are 986,120 words in the English language is patent garbage. It’s an “absurd declaration” allegedly…

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