top | item 30429197 (no title) Vindicis | 4 years ago On the homepage of the OED it says "More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years". Who's right? Who knows anymore. discuss order hn newest gowld|4 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Entr...> Supplementing the entry headwords, there are> 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives;[8]> 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations;[9]> 616,500 word-forms in total,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headword> The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has around 273,000 headwords along with 220,000 lemmas [word, compound, phrase, or derivative],[2]
gowld|4 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Entr...> Supplementing the entry headwords, there are> 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives;[8]> 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations;[9]> 616,500 word-forms in total,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headword> The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has around 273,000 headwords along with 220,000 lemmas [word, compound, phrase, or derivative],[2]
gowld|4 years ago
> Supplementing the entry headwords, there are
> 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives;[8]
> 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations;[9]
> 616,500 word-forms in total,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headword
> The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has around 273,000 headwords along with 220,000 lemmas [word, compound, phrase, or derivative],[2]