The English language has more than 800,000
different words. Most people know at the
most barely 100,000 words. That means
most people who speak, write, and read English are only aware of and using one
eighth of the words that make up this amazing language.
I have an Internet site I have signed up with
that sends me a different English word every day.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/definition
Please check it out. This sight gives you the definition of the
word. Examples of how it has actually
been used in writing and the origins of the word. Each day I get a new word with the definition
and examples of how it is used.
I actually copy and paste them into a word
document and then run the spell check feature and add the words that Microsoft
Word does not recognize, which is quite a few of them. So slowly but surely as my knowledge
increases so does the vocabulary of my word processor.
What word has
the most definitions?
"Set"
has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary.
"Run"
comes in a distant second, with 396 definitions.
Rounding out
the top ten are;
"go"
with 368 definitions.
"take"
with 343 definitions.
"stand"
with 334 definitions.
"get"
with 289 definitions.
"turn"
with 288 definitions.
"put"
with 268 definitions.
"fall"
with 264 definitions.
"strike"
with 250 definitions.
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1 comments:
Great post! I think I will sign up for that website as well. It can't hurt to build my vocabulary, especially since I am not a native speaker. :)
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