National Dictionary Day on ABC World News (must-see!)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 10/17/07, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good job, Ben.   Is it 2 billion words in English?  I thought I read somewhere 1
> billion.

I was talking about the two billion words in the Oxford English Corpus
(which was only discussed obliquely in the snippets of the interview
that aired). More here:

http://www.askoxford.com/oec/


--Ben Zimmer

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