Change one letter #3

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BartholomewB said:
As I said yesterday, that’s what I like about CAF …
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Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil in the book "The Story of English"
“The statistics of English are astonishing. Of all the world’s languages (which now number some 2,700), it is arguably the richest in vocabulary. The compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words; and a further half-million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued. According to traditional estimates, neighboring German has a vocabulary of about 185,000 and French fewer than 100,000, including such Franglais as le snacque-barre and le hit-parade .”

Merriam-Webster says: “It has been estimated that the vocabulary of English includes roughly 1 million words…”

:grinning:And here, we are just scratching the surface…😀😀
 
Orion1963 said:
… and French fewer than 100,000, including such Franglais as le snacque-barre and le hit-parade .”
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Ha! And the French don’t even have a word for “shallow”. They have to make do with peu profond, “not very deep.”
 
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