“How many words are there in the English language? The short answer is: about a million,” he told RD.com. Doubt you know anything even close to a million words?

Figuring out how many words there are in the English language is complicated for a number of reasons. Let’s start with its roots. What about persona non grata, “an unacceptable or unwanted ...

How many words are there in the English language? No one knows. But that hasn’t stopped an operation known as the Global Language Monitor from estimating * that—as of this writing—there are ...

The word count is this, 986,120 and what that designates is the total number of words in the English language. Wow, we thought. Getting very close to the one million milestone.

Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in ... there are an estimated 171,146 words currently in use in the English language, ...

In Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, I examine how words borrowed from different languages have influenced English throughout its history. The above feature summarizes some of the ...

Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue? That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less ...