Appellations, locutions, and vocables…oh my
You’ve probably heard the statistic about how few words we actual use in our daily communications. It’s on the order of about 2,000 words, out of the hundreds of thousands there are. (Estimates vary widely.)
Here is an admonition to avail oneself of a thesaurus.
Which caused me to track down this site…the Global Language Monitor:
“This all being said, I now unequivocally state that as of 1:16 pm (Pacific) on the 22nd day of March in the year 2008 AD (or CE, whatever your preference), there were approximately 995,112 words in the English Language, plus or minus a handful.
Choose well among them.”