Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an approximate ...

Mac: Last year, XKCD’s Randall Monroe released Simple Writer, a web app that restricted your writing to the top 1,000 most commons words in the English language. If web apps aren’t your thing, ...

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It's no secret: English can be a tricky language, and even the most fluent speakers occasionally stumble over their words. The truth is, aiming for "perfect" speech isn't entirely realistic – native ...