Invisible wrote:
> Already seen it. (Why do you think I picked that example?) I'm still 
> wondering just how large a typical vocabulary is. I'm guessing tens of 
> thousands of words, roughly.

Probably.

An easier measure is "how many different words show up in a large newspaper 
over the course of a year". The answer there, I've heard, is around 
8000-10000 words.

Counting words in a dictionary seems the wrong way to go.

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