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How Many Words Do We Actually Use in Everyday Speech: Fewer than You Think
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The average adult speaker knows tens of thousands of words, but in everyday speech, only a few hundred do the bulk of the work. According to research led by Brysbaert of Ghent University, the average twenty-year-old native speaker of American English knows about 42,000 words. The range is large, from 27,000 words for those with the smallest vocabulary to 52,000 for those with […] The post How Many Words Do We Actually Use in Everyday Speech: Les…
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