 | | 2015-10-28 02:12
From blog The Dressed Aesthetic
Neologism
There have been 10’s of thousands of new words added to the English language since I was born – according to Oxford English Dictionary (apparently the authority on the subject, seeing as they literally write the book on words), they add approximately 1,000 a year in a conservative estimate. Apparently these days a new word is added every 98 minutes. That’s crazy. Essentially, it means my niece will have to learn 32,000 more words than I did when I entered kindergarten.
T his fun fact was brought to you by a new word I learned today: A neologism (from Greek néo- , “new” and lógos , “speech, utterance”) is...
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