words
Saturday, April 29th, 2006Here’s a few interesting English language stats from McCarthy and O’Dell, “English Vocabulary in Use.”
- Did you know that there are approximately 500,000 words in English?
- A person with a particularly large vocabulary might use around 60,000 English words.
- The average native English speaker uses about 5000 words in everyday speech.
- There are 50 words that represent 45% of everything written in English.
