You may include all the French words in English. Assuming you're clever enough to know they are French. What are your favourite words and expressions?
There are quite a few French posters on DL, so maybe the question is moot to them.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 22, 2019 9:42 PM |
In his collected writings, Shakespeare used 31,534 different words. 14,376 words appeared only once and 846 were used more than 100 times. Using statistical techniques, it’s possible to estimate how many words he knew but didn’t use.
This means that in addition the 31,534 words that Shakespeare knew and used, there were approximately 35,000 words that he knew but didn’t use. Thus, we can estimate that Shakespeare knew approximately 66,534 words.
According to one estimate, the average speaker of English knows between 10,000-20,000 words.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 22, 2019 9:50 PM |
r1 They could still pick the last or the second-to-last option in the poll.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 22, 2019 9:50 PM |