Trying to keep up!
Looks like the English language will hit one million words in April!!!
Arggghhh!! I am getting to them all as quickly as I can!!!
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At least youll never run out of words or phrases. What will you do when you finished the whole dictionary???? Teach us Math?
I have a word request. Though it is actually 2 words or maybe its a phrase. Im not too sure:
Pomp and Circumstance Where did that pharse come from? Why are they always together? Can you ever just have Pomp or Circumstance??? THis confuses me so and I hope you can help out. Hopefully someday you will do a request of mine.
I think we should have two lessons a day. I’m a glutton for punishment.
Speaking of glutton, maybe that would be a good word request.
As always, thank you for your consideration.
A million of them eh? That’s quite a thundering herd.
“Si tous les cocus et leurs femmes qui les font se tenoyent tous par la main, et qu’il s’en pust faire un cerne, je croy qu’il seroit assez bastant pour entourner et circuir la moitié de la terre.”
– Pierre de Bourdeille, Baron de Brantôme (1540 – 1614)
“A million words doesn’t really seem excessive, given 1.35 billion speakers of English on the planet. That works out to only one word for every 1,350 speakers.”
I feel so left out.
Does this mean I should talk less?
Where are the TA’s when you need them.
good luck with that…
Wow, it looks like dear teacher needs to get busy. C’mon Teach! We are all pulling for you.
Oh Hosani! (yea, I actually read the damn thing)
It did remind me of the kangaroo lesson
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one million bottles of beer on the wall…
I think I just found the next new forum game – LOL!
The Patton quote is a rerun (that makes two!)
Thanks for trying!
You are doing a wonderful job of introducing people, who otherwise would have no interest, to words.
You have managed to take generally dull subject matter and give it life!
Thanks again.
Well Marina You are just going to have to try harder!
You only have to do about est. 8,330 (est. -417 already done) lessons per day! 
You should be able to whip that out no problem! 
We know you can do it! 
ssssshhhhhh. Everyone. Be very nice to Marina. She seems to be a bit loopy today. Just smile and pretend everything is just fine. The guys in the white coats are on their way.
Captain Jack LTA
You mean us Jack?
Oh crap,
I brought my brown coat…
THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
YEA ! 1 mill WOW !
I’m curious to know if theres a list of words that have been removed from the dictionary. Do some dictionaries have words in them that others don’t
Why?
Why?
Where do the lonely removed words go?
Sorry, just in a “why” kindda mood.
I found a list of words that have been removed from a CHILDRENS Oxford Junior Dictionary in Britain. Heres the list
Words taken out:
Carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe
Dwarf, elf, goblin
Abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister, monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil, vicar
Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, decade
adder, ass, beaver, boar, budgerigar, bullock, cheetah, colt, corgi, cygnet, doe, drake, ferret, gerbil, goldfish, guinea pig, hamster, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark, leopard, lobster, magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, ox, oyster, panther, pelican, piglet, plaice, poodle, porcupine, porpoise, raven, spaniel, starling, stoat, stork, terrapin, thrush, weasel, wren.
Acorn, allotment, almond, apricot, ash, bacon, beech, beetroot, blackberry, blacksmith, bloom, bluebell, bramble, bran, bray, bridle, brook, buttercup, canary, canter, carnation, catkin, cauliflower, chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, crocus, dandelion, diesel, fern, fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut, ivy, lavender, leek, liquorice, manger, marzipan, melon, minnow, mint, nectar, nectarine, oats, pansy, parsnip, pasture, poppy, porridge, poultry, primrose, prune, radish, rhubarb, sheaf, spinach, sycamore, tulip, turnip, vine, violet, walnut, willow
Heres the whole article
-ing!
Where’s all the people that cry censorship when something like this happens. Now if you ban a porno video or a piece of music that’s demeaning to women or children or full of profanity then all of the people come out of the wood work to cry your censoring my freedom of speech or my freedom of expression. This type of censoring of every day words is just so wrong.
Just wait, This is only a scratch on the surface of things to come…you just wait Mr.
They must do that to save paper?
All the words that people don’t LOVE anymore… get shipped out to a top secret “wordpile” out in the sticks. Maybe some future archaeologist will dig them up and bring them back to life. Who knows… maybe Marina’s Good-lookin’ Great-grand-daughter will start up a thing called DigginForWords!
Well PD,
I’d say the lonely words will ride into their setting sun,
far, far away from their dictionaries… They’ve got a long, long way to roam, so to speak.
How do we compare with other languages?
I’d like to know that too wetsuit
4th! No rest for the weary!
7th & 8th Slow internet
Now I’ll have to buy a new dictionary
Sounds like a union job(job security) no offense unionists just a little humor
work work
I have a few dozen of different Dictionaries…even a mason bible
Just seen it PK
Oh, they forgot one – First!!!
Heh heh -homework tooo big of a challenge?
Congrats #1 today