Strange, salty, substantial ENGLISHWORDS

Hey Charlie!

As you all know , there are so many words in the English Language...(but so little when you're writing an essay lol)

Anyway, the right number of words in the english language is a mystery according to some articles...
and it looks debatable!

How many words are in the English Language?

"Many people estimate that there are more than a million words in the English language. In fact, during a project looking at words in digitised books, researchers from Harvard University and Google in 2010, they estimated a total of 1,022,000 words and that the number would grow by several thousand each year. When you see a massive number like this, though, it’s important to remember that this includes different forms of the same word. It also includes lots of words that we could call archaic (they are not used in modern English).

In the second edition of the Oxford English dictionary, there are approximately 600,000 word forms defined. Again, this includes many old-fashioned words that are not in common use any more. The dictionary also expands every year to keep up with new words that are invented to describe the world around us, or to include new meanings for words that already exist in English. A more useful number from the Oxford English Dictionary would be the 171,476 words that are in current use. That means there are examples of each of these words being used recently.

That’s still a lot of words, though, and doesn’t reflect the number of words that English speakers actually use. For that number, let’s look at a recent study by the people at testyourvocab.com who say that most adult native-speakers of English have a vocabulary of 20,000-35,000 words. Obviously, these are not the same words and everyone’s vocabulary will include different words according to their career, education and interested.

So, let’s look back at the question. If we want to talk about how many words there are in English, there are three key numbers to remember: more than a million total words, about 170,000 words in current use, and 20,000-30,000 words used by each individual person."

How about you, though? How many words do you think you know and what are you doing to expand your vocabulary to the 20,000-30,000 that an English native speaker uses?

That made me think that there are so many words that we don't know about... and that we probably don't need to know to talk in our everyday lives.
But still it is quite powerful and exciting to think that learning new words means learning new ways of speaking, more precisely and it represents new ways to express what you feel in a different manner.
 #the right word

It can be great, for your next conversations with your inner self or with others, for your writings and for yourself and your knowledge. To identify what you feel, I do believe that words are what makes everything "real".

Here are some weird ones that I didn't know about...

Abibliophobia: The fear of running out of reading material.
To Canoodle: To hug and kiss <3
Collywobbles: Nervousness or butterflies in the stomach
Crapulence: Great intemperance, sickness, discomfort from eating or drinking too much.
Doosy: Something special or unusual, that is really great

Nincompoop: A foolish person
("I am too childish-foolish for this world", sorry)BARDOLATRY: excessive admiration, worship, of William Shakespeare ("the Bard") !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Skedaddle: To hurry somewhere
Slangwhanger: A loud abusive speaker or an obnoxious writer
Wabbit: Exhausted, tired, worn out
To constellate: To gather together
To disenthral: to set someone free from enslavement

Anyway, tell me what you think about my article,
Ps: My favorite one is defintely this one:

INEFFABLE: Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words. 

Bye,

Eléa