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Re: All known english words
From: Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date: Sat Sep 10 2005 - 01:43:01 CEST
Date: Sat Sep 10 2005 - 01:43:01 CEST
Luc The Perverse wrote:
> "Joe Peschel" <jpeschel@no.spam.org> wrote in message
> news:Xns96CBA65D82E3Cfa0khgj7ji8i8jo9@216.168.3.44...
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>>Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote in
>>news:dfq6ai$qs4$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca:
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>>>I think that OED has something like a million words defined.
>>>
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>>The 1989 edition of the OED has around 615,000 entries.
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> OED?
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Oxford English Dictionary.
THE dictionary, not to be confused with smaller American rivals.
Andrew Swallow
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:53:41 2005