Wednesday, June 10, 2009

IT'S OFFICIAL


The English language now has almost 1 million words in its vocabulary. (That number makes winning a spelling bee that much more impressive.) The Chinese language contains about 500,000 words. Spanish has about 225,000, with Russian with a lean 195,000 words. Is it any wonder that the world has trouble understanding what we are saying?

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