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Old 10-06-2009, 09:47 PM
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Smile Cracking the one millionth word
How many English words do you know?
a company in the USA reckons we have passed the million mark
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Old 10-06-2009, 10:01 PM
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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 ...

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Old 10-06-2009, 10:08 PM
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geez Ron i am lucky to string together a few to make a coherent sentence. Dennis must have eaten at least half of that dictionary he is such a great orator and his descriptions are pretty good as well:
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Old 10-06-2009, 10:16 PM
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I reckon Dennis wrote the "Gettysburg Address" in a past life
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Old 10-06-2009, 10:18 PM
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what about our Aussie slang is that in there too
I have my own dictionary (so my hubby keeps telling me)
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Amazing fact that Ron.

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

The eloquent Mr Simmons.
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