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Susan Ebbers 2005 How many words are there in the English Language? The Second Edition of the 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. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. These figures take no account of entries with senses for different parts of speech (such as noun and adjective). Yea, yea, so get to the point… This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach…. Are you ready for this? three quarters of a million 750,000 Thatsalotawords!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Real world demands…. Only 30% of 4th graders are proficient readers National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP 2007) 42 million adults in the US are functionally illiterate, meaning that cant read the front page of the newspaper. (NAEP 2007) Lack of vocabulary can be a crucial factor underlying the school failure of disadvantage students (Becker, 1977; Bielmiller, 1999). Bet cha’ didn’t know… In California they determine how many jail cells they will build to house future inmates - by calculating how many children are not reading on grade level by third grade. Here is a short cut! Half of all “high-frequency words” every day words, and two-thirds of all academic and technical words are derived from Latin or Greek. So learn the meanings of roots, prefixes, and suffixes and these basic elements make it easier to learn new words. 20 Most Frequent Prefixes in School Texts Prefixes: Meaning and Connot