English vocabulary:
1 has a large English vocabulary (990,000 in total), but if you want to estimate the specific figures, you must first determine which words can be counted as it. However, unlike other languages, there is no authoritative academic institution to define what is a formal vocabulary. New words in the fields of medicine, science and technology are constantly emerging, some of which have entered the daily language of the public, and some are only used in a small range of people. Foreign language words brought by immigrant groups tend to blend into the English-speaking society. It is impossible to judge whether some ancient words and dialect words can be counted as English.
2. The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) contains more than 500,000 entries, and its standards are relatively loose: "It includes standard words in literary works and daily conversations, whether contemporary, outdated or archaic, as well as major scientific words and a large number of dialects and slang".
3. Since the popularization of electronic computers, many words related to this category have entered people's lives; In addition, many new words related to telecommunication technology are composed of affixes.
4. For example, "wiki" itself is Hawaiian, but because of the popularity of Wikipedia, "wiki+-fy" (wiki+-fy, meaning wikization) has emerged; Then "wikify" (the process or action of wikify) came into being from wikify.
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