Paul Anthony Jones's latest HuffPost column
20 Jun 2014

The English language is, quite literally, the greatest language in the world. Great in terms of size - the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains 615,000 entries. Great in terms of scope – it’s an official language in seventy-nine countries and territories. And great in terms of, well, greatness – it’s just one fantastic mishmash of borrowings, inventions, corruptions, misinterpretations, misspellings, alterations, words you’ll never need, and words you never even knew you’ll never need…

66 Facts You May Not Have Known About The English Language

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