Just in case this event has passed you by, here's a link to an article informing us that English now has one million words! Interestingly, the word in question has a lot to do with teaching. Can you guess what it might be?
Amongst the many interesting things the article tells us we have this:
... new words are entering the language at the rate of 14.7 words a day. The internet has also revived the possibilities for independent word-coinage in a way not seen since Shakespeare’s time, when the language was acquiring its modern structure and words were being invented faster than ever before. Of the 24,000 words used by Shakespeare, some 1,700 were his own inventions.
Plenty to keep us and our English language students busy for a long, long time to come then!
Friday, June 12, 2009
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