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224 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781782438915
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Publication date: 01 March 2020
Description
The Oxford English Dictionary contains 175,000 words in common usage, and yet linguists estimate that a vocabulary of 3,000 is sufficient to cover 95% of common usage in speech and print. Where have all those other words gone? The English language...
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224 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781782438915
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Publication date: 01 March 2020
Description
The Oxford English Dictionary contains 175,000 words in common usage, and yet linguists estimate that a vocabulary of 3,000 is sufficient to cover 95% of common usage in speech and print. Where have all those other words gone? The English language...