I read somewhere that english has over a million words in it's vocabulary, and I've been wondering what exactly are the majority of these words.
My natal language (romanian) for example, only has about 220.000 words in it's vocabulary, and it includes medical terms and all that.
So I don't understand what are all those extra words in english.
I speak both languages and almost everything from the normal spoken english has an equivalent in romanian, so I am very curios what all those extra words could be.
PS: This is a link to the article http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/10/english-million-word-milestone
The fact that Web 2.0 is considered the millionth word, is weird tho...
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