I Billion and counting.

[2ffat]

According to Oxford English Corpus Database, the English language has just reached a major milestone, 1 Billion words/phrases and counting.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1891813

http://www.askoxford.com/oec

James P. Cottingham
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^{I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229!}

 

[sleipnir214]

Actually, they're talking about the database itself, I think.

Oxford University Press lexicographer Catherine Soanes said the database is not a collection of 1 billion different words, but of sentences and other examples of the usage and spelling

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[CRilliterate]

Both or one?

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[SantaMufasa]

Both or one?

Sometimes it's such an adventure reading your posts...sometimes you are the Master of Ambiguity...Last time I checked, "Both or one?" was no where near a complete sentence...By "Both or one?", what do you mean?

Mufasa
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[CRilliterate]

American too? or just English?

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[sleipnir214]

CRilliterate:
Are you saying that you expected us to expand the macro "Both or one?" to "American too? or just English?"

Do you understand why expecting us to do that is unreasonable?




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