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Some of you must have complained why there are so many English words that you have to memorize every day. However, do you know how many words the English language has exactly? Maybe ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or even one million!
Every 98 minutes, there is a new English word being created. Last time when words were being added to the language at this rate was during the days of William Shakespeare. The widespread popularity of English has brought the most fertile (丰富的) period of word creation. About 1.53 billion people speak English as a primary, a second or a business language. The Global Language Monitor, located in the state of Texas in the US, has been recording English word creation since 2003. Now, there are almost one million English words.
Words that are predicted to be the one millionth include “defollow”, “defriend”, “noob”, and “greenwashing”. “Defollow” and “defriend” are Internet words, describing what users do with a person they do not wish to stay in touch with on the Internet. “Noob” is an offending name for someone new to a particular task or community. The word “greenwashing” refers to what companies do to appear environmentally friendly. And “chiconomics” means a difficult time in fashion. Of course, there is a possibility that the one millionth word will be a sixth choice. The Global Language Monitor once expected that the millionth English word would be “imminent” in 2006, but the organization has put off that expected date more than once. Other experts have have expressed doubts about its methods because they don’t think that there is an agreement about how to classify a word.
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