Friday, July 24, 2009

A new word every 98 minutes

New words are coined in English all the time. However, I didn't realize how many until I read this article on the BBC website.

Apparently a new word is created every 98 minutes and there are already one million words in English.

Wow!

1 comment:

margaret said...

Wow! Very interesting. Is it really true? English is a global language and it is very easy one to communicate too.
Thanks for sharing interesting information here.

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