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Every word on the planet? Probably impossible to know every word on the planet since hundreds would be wordsbecoming, just like the one I just created.
We've had this interesting number of words discussion many times here and have agreed it's an impossible task. However, debate aside, the last time I heard some rogue speak of number of words in the English language recorded in current dictionaries, that rogue mentioned a million + figure and I suspect that million + (though we all here know that a million + is too low) did not include the 300,000 + that are on urbandictionary.com. And since I read years ago that the average lexicographer (not the over-achieving lexicographer) had a vocabulary of 100,000 + words, then I think there's a pretty good chance we can all sigh a huge collective sigh of relief when we don't know every word on Hogwashregistered.
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