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astroron
10-06-2009, 09:47 PM
How many English words do you know?
a company in the USA reckons we have passed the million mark:eyepop:
:eyepop:

Robh
10-06-2009, 10:01 PM
What a phenomenal thing the human brain is!

... "astrophotography" ... that's word number 20000
... "astrophysics" ... that's word number 20001 ...
I'll get back to you later ... :D

Regards, Rob

h0ughy
10-06-2009, 10:08 PM
geez Ron i am lucky to string together a few to make a coherent sentence:whistle:. Dennis must have eaten at least half of that dictionary :lol: ;) he is such a great orator and his descriptions are pretty good as well:

astroron
10-06-2009, 10:16 PM
I reckon Dennis wrote the "Gettysburg Address" in a past life;)

Jen
10-06-2009, 10:18 PM
:eyepop:

:screwy::screwy: what about our Aussie slang is that in there too :lol::lol:
I have my own dictionary (so my hubby keeps telling me) :whistle:

jjjnettie
10-06-2009, 10:34 PM
Amazing fact that Ron.

:lol: I get like that at times too David. But the cause of my incoherency is usually self inflicted.:whistle:

:prey2: The eloquent Mr Simmons.