14-Nov-2006, 01:16
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 Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary
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Originally Posted by Avalon  According to a book entitled English Vocabulary in Use(Michael McCarty and Felicity OŽDell) there are at least 500,000 words in English, Winston Churchill was famous for his particularly large vocabulary,he used 60,000 words in his writing(? what writing?) , the average native English speaker uses 5,000 words in his/her everyday speech and 50 words make up 45% of everything written in English!  | How does the source define "everyday speech"? |