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Very fine article in June Vocabula Review, by Orin Hargraves about American English vs. other versions.
Startly to me, statement near end of article that says there are a 000hundred million English words.
"Likewise in the area of linguistic research, Britons can point with pride to the British National Corpus, a searchable database of a staggering 100 million words of British English."
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I suppose that's really 100,000, American.
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one would think that in a word article, they would clarify the million.  [gray]waiting for my coming million. or is that the next million?[/gray]
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I goofed again. The article was long enough my peepers were pooped. It was talking about a database from which frequencies, etc. could be determined.
Not words in a dictionary.
I very much regret having gotten excited over nothing.
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nothing like pooped peepers. all things being what they are, however, the use of million in a multi-English setting should be clarified. billions of people could end up very confused...
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The good-humoured efforts of our beloved USns to suggest that "million" doesn't mean the same thing in the English-speaking world that it does in the US reminded me of something. They reminded me that English already had a perfectly good word for what US hegemony has now ensured is known universally as a billion. Bring back the milliard!
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>Bring back the milliard!
let's see: million, milliard, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion...
yep, that makes lots of sense I guess, in the usual UK sense of making sense.
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Besides, a milliyard is a thousandth of a yard. Comes out to 0.036 inch.
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I thought it was where they stored all the lumber...
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