171,476 words The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. That is a lot of words.  My vocabulary isn't anywhere near that, how about yours?  So with the words I use, I need to beContinue reading "Words"