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robotjohnny (1407 words)
appears in these lists:
kat's words, by kat
Samme's Words, by Samme
Word Words, by cricket
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dictionary.com now has *free* auditory pronunciation. I'm not too dismayed to learn that I've been mispronouncing the s-word.
The Onion Historical Archives has an article about this.
I like looking up "dictionary" in dictionaries and seeing how the definitions of themselves vary
Ho. Lee. Cow.
Derren Brown memorized the dictionary.
Another fun fact:
Modern English is rooted almost equally in Latin, French and Germanic. The percentages, provided by Oxford Dictionaries, are below:
Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
French, including Old French and early Anglo-French: 28.3%
Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch: 25%
Greek: 5.32%
No etymology given: 4.03%
Derived from proper names: 3.28%
All other languages contributed less than 1%
Fun Fact about English:
There are somewhere between 450,000 and 600,000 unique words in the various English dictionaries (OED, MW).