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So Many Words, So Little Time

February 8, 2021 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

We’re a wordy bunch, we English speakers. According to the Oxford Dictionaries’ Lexico website (“How Many Words Are There in the English Language?”), “The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989, contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative […]

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100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

May 31, 2013 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

By Kelley Lindberg   Ten years ago, the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries created a book called 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know.   It’s a humbling list.   I only knew 75 for sure. As a writer, I hang my head. I decided to go through the whole list in the […]

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