The wonderful world of words
Here’s a Web site for those who are fascinated with words. It’s called Phrontistery, which means a “thinking-place”. The description of the site says:
Welcome to the Phrontistery! I’m your host, Forthright. Since 1996, I have compiled word lists in order to spread the joy of the English language. Here, you will find the International House of Logorrhea (an online dictionary of obscure and rare words), the Compendium of Lost Words (a compilation of ultra-rare forgotten words), and many other glossaries, word lists, essays, and other language and etymology resources.
Incidentally, the Oxford English Dictionary folks estimate that there are at least a quarter-million distinct words in the English language. And that doesn’t include the made-up words and neologisms that technology types keep coming up with. But then, is “tweet” an English word or part of an international Web language? In any event, if you include all the technical jargon and expressions from Asian and other regional users of English, it is estimated that there are around one million English words.
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