TELL ME !!
2007-01-04 00:49:49 · 9 answers · asked by uno_lover429 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
THE DICTIONARY
I've come up with -
act
action
and
art
cat
coin
dirt
dictation
ear
honey
I give up. There's too many. but 60 sounds good to me too.
2007-01-04 01:04:59 · answer #1 · answered by ღ Q T ღ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No no no! A dictionary has a lot more words than that. From 50 000 to about 600 000. An Oxford is proably the best choice.
2007-01-04 09:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by Trinity 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
different dictionaries have different amount of words, school size, univeristiy size and a reference size which our university library has it weights is about 5 to 10 lbs.
most dictionaries need to have at least 10,000 words to be useable by school children, the bigger your vocabulary the bigger the dictionary.
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2007-01-04 08:56:51 · answer #3 · answered by Wicked 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have seen dictionaries with an excess of 200,000 words.. A vocabulary of around 60,000 words is considered PHD graduate material, so for most people, something around 50,000 words should be more than plenty.
Your usual paper-back dictionaries (as far as I know) are around 30,000 - 40,000 usually.
Pocket dictionaries often include around 10,000 to 20,000 words. A recent children's dictionary I looked at had 5,000
2007-01-04 08:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by sticbaby03 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Present-day dictionaries have become corrupted by liberals. They have altered the language and there are some co-called words in there that aren't even valid words.
2007-01-04 08:53:16 · answer #5 · answered by Joe C 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sixty, you silly goose their are 143 words in the dictionary.
2007-01-04 08:55:44 · answer #6 · answered by reznap12 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you might want to add a few zeros to that 60
2007-01-04 08:51:07 · answer #7 · answered by Kelly H 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
60? yes that's absolutely correct how did you know?
2007-01-04 08:51:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
7,563,812 words
2007-01-04 13:09:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋