English Language Size Doubled
December 18th, 2010 Posted in Blog: writing, editing | No Comments »The English language has doubled in size over the last century. Since 1950, English has reportedly expanded by 70 percent.
In the new millennium Google found that English was expanding by 8500 words a year and our language apparently now stands at a count of 1022000 words. However, nearly half of the newer words are not in dictionaries due to their slang or jargon origins.
See the full article from The Telegraph.