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On the homepage of the OED it says "More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years". Who's right? Who knows anymore.
by Vindicis 5y ago
On the homepage of the OED it says "More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years". Who's right? Who knows anymore.
- gowld 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Entries_and_relative_size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Entr... > Supplementing the entry headwords, there are > 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives;[8] > 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations;[9] > 616,500 word-forms in total, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headword > The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has around 273,000 headwords along with 220,000 lemmas [word, compound, phrase, or derivative],[2]