View Single Post
Old 09-19-2011, 06:17 AM   #216
pdurrant
The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pdurrant ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
pdurrant's Avatar
 
Posts: 74,120
Karma: 315558334
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Oasis
Quote:
Originally Posted by Billi View Post
I would have thought that e.g. French and German had far more words.
I just remembered l'Académie Française. They produce the authoritative dictionary of the French language. They still working on the 9th edition, which it is estimated will contain 50,000 words.

And apparently there's something similar in German, Duden, which contains around 135,000 words.
pdurrant is offline   Reply With Quote