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
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 […]
