Re: Plausibility Check


Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

fact

Fact is you can't say how many words English had in
Shakespeare's time.

I personally? Of course not. Neither can you.

But the number of words that happened to be used in writing between,
say, 1590 and 1620 and preserved until the 19th century can easily be
determined using the OED's software.

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